 BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead ; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the one, the Blue ; Under the other,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2151867Full view - About this book
 | Elmo Howell - Authors, American - 1988 - 292 pages
...reading of Judge Finch's poem, first published in the September, 1867, issue of the Atlantic Monthly. By the flow of the inland river. Whence the fleets...Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray .... From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Quotations, English - 1992 - 1172 pages
..."Snow." (1. 1—4) NTCP; OBCA; OnUR; PDV; RHPC FRANCIS MILES FINCH (1827-1907) The Blue and the Gray 1 a a live-o — (1. 1—4) 2 No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red: They banish our anger... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...(1881), and the second in Slason Thompson's anthology The Humhler Poets (1899). The Blue and the Gray By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the hlades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...Columbus, Mississippi, who spread flowers over the graves of both the Union and the Confederate dead. By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Cooling - 1989 - 392 pages
...there, far from homes and youth. Washington, DCB Franklin Cooling Rivers and the Heartland in Crisis BY THE FLOW OF THE INLAND RIVER , whence the fleets of iron have fled," begins a Civil War poem.1 The people of that era are long dead, yet their poetic expression provides... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers, Alike for the friend and the foe: — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the one, the Blue Under the other, the Gray. So with an equal splendor The morning sun rays fall, 36. Washington Gladden, the future Social affecting... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 361 pages
...deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. V REUNITED THE BLUE AND THE GRAY BY FRANCIS MILES FINCH By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets...ranks of the dead: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day; Under the one, the Blue, Under the other, the Gray. These in the robings of glory,... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - American literature - 2006 - 648 pages
...age and the old to dishonourable graves." Francis Miles Finch THE BLUE AND THE GRAY (September 1867) By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets...Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep on the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one,... | |
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