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I look up to her, and I know

That years may come and years may go,

And life may ebb and life may flow;

Yet still above the sweep and surge

Of pain and passion that doth urge

The hot time upon horror's verge,

She will behold The Hand displayed;

She will stand ever undismayed: -

Wherefore my heart is not afraid.

Richard Realf

In the Trenches at the Front

Opposite Marietta, Georgia July 2, 1864