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Stand and Deliver (Pickett's Charge)
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Stand and Deliver (Pickett's Charge) |
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Kevo Member
since 2004-06-02
Posts 466Navarro County, Texas, USA 
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I'm back! I hope you enjoy this one! My computer is fixed and you'll be seeing me around here again! Warm regards to all! It's good to be back. Stand and Deliver Pickett's Charge July 3rd, 1863, Gettysburg) "March on young men! Destiny awaits you. The sun shall shine on you today! All the world shall embrace your valor! Heroes of the day, all of you. Steady boys. Steady. Show them your bayonets today boys, baptized in their crimson tides! Do not yield this fated day to the last of you! Cause has ridden hard upon your purposed backs. You stand today for all Virginians! Against an enemy not of your choosing but of your fellow countrymen principled the plunder of your homes, your lives, your rights! Fear not the cannon-fire men! Embrace it only as you turn them upon desperate faces and yellow backs! Unleash Hell upon them all boys! By blood and breath fury shall reign on this field before you at the hands of the Virginians! We shall have ourselves the day boys! And the night? Of sweet rewards. Give them mercy at the slash of the sword! Let the thunder of the cannons speak loudly to them that they may understand the resolve in which Virginians defend our honor and our homes! This day of reckoning is upon us chiseling the minutes of the day, the record of our cause, and the registry of sacrifice upon the alabaster stone. Fall not with your backs to them but charging them in defiance of their great trespass! For old Virginia boys! For old Virginia! Your deeds today shall echo into history. Your finest hours awaits you! March on boys! March on! Meet death and cast him aside! Do not despair. Rejoice in assured victory here and now upon this desparate field. And, through it all remember that you are all Virginians! That they cannot dispel! Now, stand and deliver boys! Stand and deliver! Give them the bayonet! Let them know you are Virginians! For old Viriginia boys! On the double-time! March! Charge!" "For old Virginia" echoed across the field into eternity ...as promised. They were, all of them, heroes of the day. now chiseled into that alabaster stone ...as promised. "General Lee, sir." "General Pickett, form your division." "But, sir, I have no division." General Pickett never recovered. Copyright, Kevin V. Reese, 2004 |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
quote: .... and still they go on! Your poem is a dramatic reminder of what wars do to humanity. Love and peace. Margherita |
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