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Hark! I Hear The Tramp Of Thousands, And Of Armèd Men The Hum; Lo, A Nation's Hosts Have Gathered Round The Quick Alarming Drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere Your Heritage Be Wasted, Said The Quick Alarming Drum.

There Is Peace In The Swamp, Though The Quiet Is Death

Your Voices Break And Falter In The Darkness, Break, Falter, And Are Still.

It Would Seem Evident, Therefore, That The Secret Of The American Short Story Was The Treatment Of Characteristic American Life, With Absolute Knowledge Of Its Peculiarities And Sympathy With Its Method.

For The Glory Born Of Goodness Never Dies, And Its Flag Is Not Half-masted In The Skies.