Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON DISBANDING THE ARMY, by DAVID HUMPHREYS


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ON DISBANDING THE ARMY, by                    
First Line: Ye brave columbian bands! A long farewell!
Last Line: Thither by death-tides borne, as ye full soon have been.
Subject(s): American Revolution


YE brave Columbian bands! a long farewell!
Well have ye fought for freedom -- nobly done
Your martial task -- the meed immortal won --
And Time's last records shall your triumphs tell.

Once friendship made their cup of suff'rings sweet --
The dregs how bitter, now those bands must part!
Ah! never, never more on earth to meet;
Distill'd from gall that inundates the heart,
What tears from heroes' eyes are seen to start!

Ye, too, farewell, who fell in fields of gore,
And chang'd tempestuous toil for rest serene;
Soon shall we join you on the peaceful shore
(Though gulfs irremeable roll between),
Thither by death-tides borne, as ye full soon have been.





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