History & Politics
Tennessee
From An American Anthology, 1787-1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900)
History & Politics
In Tennessee, the dogwood tree
Blossoms to-night: towards the sea
The Cumberland makes melody,
In Tennessee.
And Morgan mounts his steed once more;
In phantom file his troopers pour
Along; the stars hear once again
The song of Morgan and his men.
In Tennessee, the slave is free
To-night; but waking he can see
The raiders--hears them--tremblingly,
In Tennessee.
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Brooks, Francis. “Tennessee.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brooks_f/1/.
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Brooks, Francis. “Tennessee.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brooks_f/1/.
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