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Vicksburg

The final resting place arrests the soul that's stirred to ponder
Unlikely calm, untimely psalm shall with these spirits wander
Now your tomb no more the gloom of morrow's peril pending
The will you brought, the peace you sought herein has found it's ending

	I cannot summon up the scale, the cry, the wail, of this sad tale 
	Where you in desperation drew that final fatal vision 
	Sunshine graces all that my eye falls on in this vale
	I search for hope that we won't follow on the sad division

That led us to the precipice where looking down on others
Would lead us to the place where we would choose to fight our brothers
Hope has many colors, complications, aspirations, and rebirth
But let us hope...   lest it should die...   along with our self-worth
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