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Rh Weeks passed; and at my window, leaving bed,

By night I mused, of easeful sleep bereft,

On those brave boys (Ah War! thy theft);

Some marching feet

Found pause at last by cliffs Potomac cleft;

Wakeful I mused, while in the street

Far footfalls died away till none were left.