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O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight,
Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night;
Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell—
Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!

— Thomas Dunn English

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Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
And trembled with fear at your frown!

Your eyes were filled with love, Kate Vane;
Ah, would that we were young again!

When greater perils men environ,
Then women show a front of iron;
And, gentle in their manner, they
Do bold things in a quiet way.

He said...that we had had niggers like oysters at a feast, "fried, stewed, raw, roasted, and sometimes like Page's 'Venus,' on the half shell."

He said, in the course of his remarks, that we had had niggers like oysters at a feast, "fried, stewed, raw, roasted, and sometimes like Page's 'Venus,' on the half shell."

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