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Reveille

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Still bathed in its moonlight slumber, the little white house by the cedar     Stands silent against the red dawn;     And nothing I know of who sleeps there, to the travail of day yet unwakened,     Behind the blue curtains undrawn:     But I dream as we march down the roadway, ringing loud and white-rimed in the moonlight,     Of a little dark house on a hill     Wherein when the battle is over, to the rapture of day yet unwakened,     We shall slumber as dreamless and still.

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