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1. WAR ECHOES.

And Jack and I to Harvard wended.

Spring came; the news of war went forth

Rousing to energy the North,

Startling in every town and farm

The volunteers to rise and arm.

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Jack, when the first dread tidings came,

Went straightway home; Tom did the same.

I, of both comrades thus bereft,

My books and college duties left,

Enlisted in a regiment,

And shortly afterward was sent

Down to the seat of war, and then

I learned the art of killing men.

Three years dragged out their course in blood;

We bore the brunt of snow and flood,

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