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I Saw The Vision Of Armies
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Joan Baez
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I saw the vision of armies (Walt Whitman)
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I saw the vision of armies;
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And I saw, as in noiseless dreams, hundreds of battle-flags,
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Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles, I saw them,
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And carried, hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody;
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And at last but a few shreds of 'the flags left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)
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And the staffs all splintered and broken.
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I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
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And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them;
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I saw the debris and debris of all dead soldiers,
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But I saw they were not as was thought;
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They themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not;
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The living remained and suffered, the mother suffered,
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And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffered,
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And the armies that remained suffered..
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