The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 08
Oliver Wendell Holmes · English
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 08
Oliver Wendell Holmes · English
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GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER-HILL BATTLE AS SHE SAW IT FROM THE BELFRY 'T is like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers All the achings and the quakings of "the times that tried men's souls"; When I talk of Whig and Tory, when I tell the Rebel story, To you the words are ashes, but to me they're burning coals. I had heard the muskets' rattle of the April running battle; Lord Percy's hunted soldiers, I can see their red-coats still; But a deadly chill co
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