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Shiloh: A Requiem (1865) by Herman Melville (1819-1891): Conflict Poetry

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,    The swallows fly low Over the field in clouded days,    The forest-field of Shiloh — Over the field where April rain Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain Through the pause of night That followed the … Continue reading

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