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"The St. Gaudens' in Boston Common"
A tribute to Colonel Shaw and his Colored Regiment

Walt Whitman's The Wound-Dresser | The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Moving - Marching - Faces of Souls!
Marked with generations of pain,
Part-freers of a Destiny,
Slowly, restlessly - swaying us on with you
Towards other Freedom!

The man on horseback, carved from a native quarry of the
    world Liberty
And from what your country was made.

You images of a Divine Law
Carved in the shadow of a saddened heart -
Never light abandoned -
Of an age and of a nation.

Above and beyond that compelling mass
Rises the drum-beat of the common heart
In the silence of a strange and sounding afterglow
Moving - Marching - Faces of Souls!



 

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