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HAVE you heard the story that gossips tell

Of Burns of Gettysburg?—No? Ah, well

Brief is the glory that hero earns,

Briefer the story of poor :

He was the fellow who won renown—

The only man who didn't back down

When the rebels rode through his native town;

But held his own in the fight next day,

When all his townsfolk ran away.

That was in July, sixty-three,

The very day that General Lee,

Flower of Southern chivalry,

Baffled and beaten, backward reeled

From a stubborn Meade and a barren field.