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52 With limbs enfranchised and bearing bright;

I thought—perhaps 'twas the pale moonlight—

They looked as white as their brothers!

And so all night marched the Nation's dead

With never a banner above them spread,

Nor a badge, nor a motto brandishéd;

No mark—save the bare uncovered head

Of the silent bronze Reviewer—

With never an arch save the vaulted sky,

With never a flower save those that lie

On the distant graves—for love could buy

No gift that was purer or truer.

So all night long swept the strange array,

So all night long till the morning gray

I watched for one who had passed away,

With a reverent awe and wonder—

Till a blue cap waved in the length'ning line,

And I knew that one who was kin of mine

Had come, and I spake—and lo! that sign

Awakened me from my slumber.