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America ii

I. POEMS OF WAR

Thick-Sprinkled Bunting 3
Beat! Beat! Drums! 4
City of Ships 6
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 7
Come Up From the Fields Father 9
A Twilight Song 12
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 14
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 16
First O Songs for a Prelude 17
Song of the Banner at Daybreak 21
The Dying Veteran 31
The Wound-Dresser 32
Dirge for Two Veterans 37
From Far Dakota's Canons 39
Old War-Dreams 41
Delicate Cluster 42
To a Certain Civilian 43
Adieu to a Soldier 44
Long, Too Long America 45

II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR

Weave In, My Hardy Life 49
How Solemn as One by One 50
Spirit Whose Work Is Done 51
The Return of the Heroes 53
Memories of President Lincoln
_When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd_ 62
_O Captain! My Captain!_ 76
_Hush'd be the Camps To-day_ 78
Ashes of Soldiers 79
Pensive on her Dead Gazing 82

III. POEMS OF AMERICA

I Hear America Singing 87
Pioneers! O Pioneers!