Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Blue And The Gray Comments

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By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
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Francis Miles Finch
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Marjorie Ashley 22 November 2017

My son set this poem to music he created. It is beautiful. My father's great-grandparents had a cemetery set aside in north Alabama, and when a skirmish left both Blue and Gray dead, they buried them all in their cemetery. All of them were some mother's son, some woman's husband or some child's father.

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