Albert Pike

  • [1861]
    southrons, hear your country call you!
    Up, lest worse than death befall you!
    To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
    Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted,—
    Let all hearts be now united!
      To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
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  • Southrons, hear your country call you!
    Up, lest worse than death befall you!
    To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
    Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted,—
    Let all hearts be now united!
      To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
        Advance the flag of...

  • Thou art lost to me forever!—I have lost thee, Isadore!
    Thy head will never rest upon my loyal bosom more;
    Thy tender eyes will never more look fondly into mine,
    Nor thine arms around me lovingly and trustingly entwine,—
        Thou art lost to me forever, Isadore!...

  • Thou glorious mocker of the world! I hear
      Thy many voices ringing through the glooms
    Of these green solitudes; and all the clear,
    Bright joyance of their song enthralls the ear,
      And floods the heart. Over the spherëd tombs
    Of vanished nations rolls thy...