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The Muster:[1]
Suggested by the Two Days' Review at Washington.
(May, 1865.)


The Abrahamic river—
Patriarch of floods,
Calls the roll of all his streams
And watery mutitudes:
Torrent cries to torrent,
The rapids hail the fall;
With shouts the inland freshets
Gather to the call.

The quotas of the Nation,
Like the water-shed of waves,
Muster into union—
Eastern warriors, Western braves.