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Moon Baby Poetry 2001 - 2005
Poetry Collection Dedicated To My Mother's Memory
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Entry #342115, added on 04-19-05 @ 11:07 am EDT
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To What End GettysburgEntry #342115
Poem Written for a Campfire Using the Word, "Time"

To What End Gettysburg
(A Poem About the Famous 3 Day Battle of 1863 and its Aftermath)

Lost in the derelection of duty
Failed to whisper allegiance
To what end?
Can't quite recall.....

Left at the legislation of pity
Failed to mutter reverance
To what end?
Can't quite mention.....

Three days in July 1863
Time to muster infantry
To what end?
Can't quite summon.....

Cemetery address that November
Failed to rightly consecrate
To what end?
Can't quite fathom.....

Union preserved at cost beyond measure
Failed to soundly estimate
To what end?
Can't quite leave them behind.....

Bound in memory century later
Failed to rightly imagine
To what end?
Can't quite thank them enough.....

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