{"id":8243,"date":"2022-05-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2022-05-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T05:00:00","slug":"the-phantom-armies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-phantom-armies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phantom Armies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 30, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By T. C. Harbaugh.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No drum-beats in the valley
    And no bugles on the hill
Where the summer breezes daily
    All the battle plain is still;
When the stars come out at even
    Far above the glist\u2019ning dew,
There\u2019s a phantom flag in heaven
    There are armies in the blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comes to them a call to duty
    From the phantom corps of yore,
Where the roses in their beauty
    Deck the far-off river\u2019s shore;
Do they dream of comrades sleeping
    Where the winds are wild and free,
Where the Rapidan is sweeping
    And where lisps the Tennessee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O, the pity and the splendor
    Of the thinned, immortal lines!
Soon the Union\u2019s last defender
    Will be camping \u2018neath the pines
Where no hand heart-ties can sever
    And the shadows long are thrown
Where the grasses whisper ever
    And no bugle blast is blown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are marching yet in glory
    Where Potomac\u2019s waters shine,
And the old camps tell the story
    Of the heroes of the line;
By the peaceful winding river
    Spectral sentries watch the foe
And their challenge sounds forever
    In the Land of Long Ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See! A line of Blue is marching
\u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s a drum-call in the street
And the heaven\u2019s overarching
\u00a0 \u00a0 Seems the veterans to greet;
They are marching slowly, slowly
\u00a0 \u00a0 As the flowers to them nod
And their remnant grows more holy
\u00a0 \u00a0 As the years pass on to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From out the dim, dead distance
    Charge the squadrons, Blue and Gray.
There is none to make resistance
    For they vanish, like the spray;
Not a cry, no word is spoken
    Ghostly banners catch the breeze,
And the silence is unbroken
    \u2018Mong the tall and somber trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 30, 1914. By T. C. Harbaugh. No drum-beats in the valley    And no bugles on the hillWhere the summer breezes daily    All the battle plain is still;When the stars come out at even    Far above the glist\u2019ning dew,There\u2019s a phantom flag in heaven    There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-t-c-harbaugh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}