{"id":"01KG8AKA6FZGAN9Z6ZJ6AE3AC9","cid":"bafkreihclhv6peiy4pp6t2wa6yvlpmkchtgnt7rnc6l2hl2e53bki344km","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4880,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:58.829Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":4789,"text":"Nay, and would more; would blend anew,\r\nAs the bones of the slain in her forests do,\r\nBewailed alike by us and you.\r\n  A voice comes out from these charnel-fields,\r\nA plaintive yet unheeded one:\r\n_‘Died all in vain? both sides undone’_\r\nPush not your triumph; do not urge\r\nSubmissiveness beyond the verge.\r\nIntestine rancor would you bide,\r\nNursing eleven sliding daggers in your side?\r\n\r\n“Far from my thought to school or threat;\r\nI speak the things which hard beset.\r\nWhere various hazards meet the eyes,\r\nTo elect in magnanimity is wise.\r\nReap victory’s fruit while sound the core;\r\nWhat sounder fruit than re-established law?\r\nI know your partial thoughts do press\r\nSolely on us for war’s unhappy stress;\r\nBut weigh--consider--look at all,\r\nAnd broad anathema you’ll recall.\r\nThe censor’s charge I’ll not repeat,\r\nThe meddlers kindled the war’s white heat--\r\nVain intermeddlers and malign,\r\nBoth of the palm and of the pine;\r\nI waive the thought--which never can be rife--\r\nCommon’s the crime in every civil strife:\r\nBut this I feel, that North and South were driven\r\nBy Fate to arms. For our unshriven,\r\nWhat thousands, truest souls, were tried--\r\n  As never may any be again--\r\nAll those who stemmed Secession’s pride,\r\nBut at last were swept by the urgent tide\r\n  Into the chasm. I know their pain.\r\nA story here may be applied:\r\n‘In Moorish lands there lived a maid\r\n  Brought to confess by vow the creed\r\n  Of Christians. Fain would priests persuade\r\nThat now she must approve by deed\r\n  The faith she kept. “What dead?” she asked.\r\n“Your old sire leave, nor deem it sin,\r\n  And come with us.” Still more they tasked\r\nThe sad one: “If heaven you’d win--\r\n  Far from the burning pit withdraw,\r\nThen must you learn to hate your kin,\r\n  Yea, side against them--such the law,\r\nFor Moor and Christian are at war”\r\n“Then will I never quit my sire,\r\nBut here with him through every trial go,\r\nNor leave him though in flames below--\r\nGod help me in his fire!”\r\nSo in the South; vain every plea\r\n’Gainst Nature’s strong fidelity;\r\n  True to the home and to the heart,\r\nThrongs cast their lot with kith and kin,\r\n  Foreboding, cleaved to the natural part--\r\nWas this the unforgivable sin?\r\nThese noble spirits are yet yours to win.\r\nShall the great North go Sylla’s way?\r\nProscribe? prolong the evil day?\r\nConfirm the curse? infix the hate?\r\nIn Unions name forever alienate?\r\n\r\n“From reason who can urge the plea--\r\nFreemen conquerors of the free?\r\nWhen blood returns to the shrunken vein,\r\nShall the wound of the Nation bleed again?\r\nWell may the wars wan thought supply,\r\nAnd kill the kindling of the hopeful eye,\r\nUnless you do what even kings have done\r\nIn leniency--unless you shun\r\nTo copy Europe in her worst estate--\r\nAvoid the tyranny you reprobate.”\r\n\r\nHe ceased. His earnestness unforeseen\r\nMoved, but not swayed their former mien;\r\n  And they dismissed him. Forth he went\r\nThrough vaulted walks in lengthened line\r\nLike porches erst upon the Palatine:\r\n  Historic reveries their lesson lent,\r\n  The Past her shadow through the Future sent.\r\n\r\nBut no. Brave though the Soldier, grave his plea--\r\n  Catching the light in the future’s skies,\r\nInstinct disowns each darkening prophecy:\r\n  Faith in America never dies;\r\nHeaven shall the end ordained fulfill,\r\nWe march with Providence cheery still.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJS1ZDQPYKP1F9FSF8A07","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKA6D8XVJCGRVD7HT8ZQS","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:00.207Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.585Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}