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"Oh, valorous gray, in the grave of your fate,
Oh, glorious blue, in the long dead years,
You were sown in sorrow and harrowed in hate,
but your harvest today is a nations tears.
For the message you left through the land has sped
from the lips of god to the heart of man:
let the past be past : let the dead be dead. --
now and forever American!" |