“What troops
Of generous boys in happiness thus bred —
Saturnians through life's Tempe led,
Went from the North and came from the South,
With golden mottoes in the mouth,
To lie down midway on a bloody bed.”

—  Herman Melville

On the Slain Collegians, st. 2
Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860)

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