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A REBEL FLAG OF TRUCE.
We must venture our souls with the rest of the throng;
And our God must be Judge, as he sits overhead,
      Of the weak and the strong,
      While we bury our dead.

      Now peace to our dead:
Fair grow the sweet blossoms of spring where they lie:
Hark! the musketry roars, and the rifles reply;
Oh the fight will be close and the carnage be dread—
      To the ranks let us hie,
      We have buried our dead.