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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), 50. Col. Corcoran's brigade. (search)
50. Col. Corcoran's brigade. I. Prompt to the gathering summons, True as the lifted steel, Into the foremost phalanx, See where their columns wheel! II. Souls of the careless daring! Souls of the trustful love! Hear you the voices swelling Ever your march above? III. Tones of your mournful mother, Reft of her queenly dower, Pale at the gate of nations, Waiting her destined hour! IV. Strains from the hills where Summer Empties her lap of flowers! Strains from the woods that glisten Wet with the noonday showers! V. See you the graceful shadows Gliding around you there! Shapes with the gleaming helmet Over their flowing hair! VI. Forms of a softer beauty! Heads with the Eastern veil! Eyes of a dewy splendor! Shades of the buried Gael! VII. Oh! for their clouded glory, “Sons of the ancient race!” Still, in the rushing battle, Yours be the victor's place! VIII. Spells from the past be with you, To charm the shields you bear! Might from the secret voices Lifted in woman's pray
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Flag-raising at Fort Corcoran. (search)
ng transplanted their flagstaff from Georgetown College to their new camp on Arlington Heights, celebrated the raising of the Stars and Stripes. Near sun-set, Col. Corcoran having assembled all the troops, numbering over thirteen hundred, not on duty, he introduced Col. Hunter, of the Third Cavalry U. S. Army, who has just been asting of the Fifth, Twenty-eighth, and Sixty-ninth New York regiments, and the detachments in the vicinity. Col. Hunter was received with great enthusiasm, and Col. Corcoran made some patriotic allusions to the Flag, and was loudly cheered. Capt. Thos. F. Meagher, having been called upon, made a brief but high-toned and patriotic which brought succor to them in Ireland; and to which, upon landing in this country, they swore undivided allegiance. He was heartily applauded throughout. Col. Corcoran, haying announced that Mr. Savage's new national song would be sung, introduced the author, who was received with loud cheering. After it subsided, he sung th