Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | Mexico: Buena Vista | | The Soldier of Buena Vista | | Henry Morford (1823–1881) |
| | | ’T WAS a fearful night when our little band | |
| Camped far away in the Mexican land, | |
| When the first faint light of our watch-fires rose, | |
| In the midst of twenty thousand foes, | |
| In the darkness of Buena Vista. | 5 |
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| Oh, twice had risen the morning sun, | |
| Since that fearful, hopeless fight begun, | |
| And twice he had sunk in the blazing west, | |
| And we still fought on, without food or rest, | |
| The fight of Buena Vista. | 10 |
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| But the night crept on, and its heavy shade | |
| Brought a pause in the fearful cannonade, | |
| And we watched, oh, a fearful watch we kept, | |
| But we hoped—still hoped—for calmly slept | |
| The soldier of Buena Vista. | 15 |
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| We fought and bled till our work was done, | |
| We have worn the meed our valor won; | |
| But alas, one by one, our comrades fall, | |
| And soon in vain shall our country call | |
| For a soldier of Buena Vista. | 20 | | | |
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