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Along The Potomac.

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When I was small, a woman died.     To-day her only boy     Went up from the Potomac,     His face all victory,     To look at her; how slowly     The seasons must have turned     Till bullets clipt an angle,     And he passed quickly round!     If pride shall be in Paradise     I never can decide;     Of their imperial conduct,     No person testified.     But proud in apparition,     That woman and her boy     Pass back and forth before my brain,     As ever in the sky.

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"When I was small, a woman died...."

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