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# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/All Quiet along the Potomac (1879)

other versions All Quiet along the Potomac
ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC.
* "ALL quiet along the Potomac," they say,
* "Except, now and then, a stray picket
* Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro,
* By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
* 'Tis nothing—a private or two now and then
* Will not count in the news of the battle;
* Not an officer lost—only one of the men
* Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle."
* All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
* Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming;
* Their tents, in the rays of the clear autumn moon
* Or the light of the watch-fire, are gleaming.
* A tremulous sigh of the gentle night-wind
* Through the forest-leaves softly is creeping,
* While stars up above, with their glittering eyes,
* Keep guard, for the army is sleeping.
* There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread
* As he traps from the rock to the fountain,
* And thinks of the two in the low trundle-bed
* Far away in the cot on the mountain. ​His musket falls slack; his face, dark and grim,
* Grows gentle with memories tender
* As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep—
* For their mother; may Heaven defend her!
* The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then,
* That night when the love yet unspoken
* Leaped up to his lips—when low-murmured vows
* Were pledged to be ever unbroken.
* Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes,
* He dashes off tears that are welling,
* And gathers his gun closer up to its place,
* As if to keep down the heart-swelling.
* He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree,
* The footstep is lagging and weary;
* Yet onward he goes through the broad belt of light,
* Toward the shade of the forest so dreary.
* Hark! was it the night-wind that rustled the leaves?
* Was it moonlight so wondrously flashing?
* It looked like a rifle—"Ha! Mary, good-bye!"
* The red life-blood is ebbing and plashing.
* All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
* No sound save the rush of the river;
* While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead—
* The picket's off duty for ever!
# All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight

A poem first published as "The Picket Guard" perhaps written by Ethel Lynn Beers in Harper's Weekly, November 30, 1861, but many authors claim ownership including Thaddeus Oliver of Georgia, and Major Lamar Fontaine, both confederate soldiers.
The music that accompanied this song was composed by John Hill Hewitt, while perhaps Ethel Lynn Beers wrote the lyrics, in 1863.
A 1864 edition is significantly different.
Ethel Lynn Beers John Hill Hewitt AllQuietPotomacConfederate1863.png
All quiet along the Potomac tonight, except here and there a stray picket is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, by a rifleman hid in the thicket: tis nothing, a private or two, now and then, will not count in the news of the battle: not an officer lost, only one of the men, moaning out all alone the death rattle.
 All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
"All quiet along the Potomac tonight", where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming, and their tents in the rays of the clear Autumn moon, and the light of the campfires are gleaming. A tremulous sigh as the gentle night wind thro' the forest leaves slowly is creeping, while the stars up above, with their glittering eyes, keep guard o'er the army while sleeping.
 All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread, as he tramps from the rock to the fountain, and thinks of the two on the low trundle bed far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack - his face, dark and grim, grows gentle with memories tender, as he mutters a prayer for the children asleep, and their mother - "May Heaven defend her."
 All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, he dashes off the tears that are welling: and gathers his gun close to his breast as if to keep down the hearts swelling. He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree, and his footstep is lagging and weary: yet onward he goes, thro' the broad belt of light, towards the shades of the forest so dreary.
 All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
Hark! was it the night wind that rustles the leaves? Was it the moonlight so wondrously flashing? It looked like a rifle! "Ha! Mary, goodbye!" and his life blood is ebbing and 'plashing. "All quiet along the Potomac tonight," no sound save the rush of the river; while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead. "The Picket's" off duty forever.
 All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/A Seat in the City Cars

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A SEAT IN THE CITY CARS.
FIVE o'clock!—getting late!—never mind it a bit;
I've a seat in the car, and here I will sit
Till my street is announced. I will, I declare!—
I have paid the half-dime—it is no more than fair.
I've been standing all day in the store and the street;
No rest for my limbs or the soles of my feet:
I am tired to death—would not budge for a king,
For an emperor, duke, or any such thing.
If a woman comes in— Why, they shouldn't try
For a seat in the cars when the evening is nigh.
"Be home before sunset," I tell Rosalie
(She's a wife for a pattern; she gets home at three).
They say, to be sure, "I can just as well stand,"
But they put up a weak little bit of a hand
In pursuit of a strap that they find is too high,
Settle down on their toes, and give up with a sigh.
Then they seem so unsteady, and waver about
When the cars with a jerk let a passenger out.
There's one getting in!—I won't look up at all,
But stare out of doors: she looks very small
Standing up in the crowd among those great men.
Her back is this way—I'll look once again.
'Tis a very nice back, and above and upon it,
With a curl peeping out, is a black velvet bonnet.
"Dear me! this is bad, then!"—Up goes the hand—
Not bigger than Rosie's—she hardly can stand.
I don't feel quite so tired; I said I'd sit still
In spite of temptations to come; and I will.
Well, I'm glad it ain't Rosie—she's not very strong;
A wee little woman, she couldn't stand long.
But stop! let me think; what if this one should be
To some other man what Rose is to me?
And how would I feel if some lazy boor
Should allow her to stand in the draft of the door?
I'm not tired a bit; I am fresh as can be—
"Here, madam, a seat."; "Oh, Fred!" "Rosalie!"
# All Quiet along the Potomac

* All Quiet along the Potomac in All quiet along the Potomac and other poems 1897
* All Quiet along the Potomac in War pictures 1913
See also:
* All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight
* Along the Potomac
# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/"Svala, Svala Honom!"

other versions All Quiet along the Potomac
"SVALA, SVALA HONOM!"
NOT for thy prophetic music,
Of the summer to be born,
Not for sake of plumage shining
In the early April morn,
Listen I, O circling swallow,
In the hush of twilight rest,
To thy vesper hymn so tender,
Evening-hymn of cheer and rest:
"Svala, svala honom!"
Since the strange unwonted twilight
Hid the thorn-encircled Head,
Thou, O bird of consolation,
Hast thy word of comfort said.
On the cross above Him, staying
Wing and foot, the legend saith,
Thou, O sympathizing swallow,
Chanted till his dying breath:
"Svala, svala honom!"
'Tis a pretty legend truly,
Born beneath the midnight sun,
From the monkish convent story,
Or the painted missal won.
Still I hear the echo chanted,
Down the ages sounding sweet;
Still I hear the brooding murmur,
Softly still thy prayer repeat:
"Svala, svala honom!"
So I fancy cheer and comfort
With the whirring of thy wings;
Still I wait and bid my sorrow
Vanish when the swallow sings;
Thinking how much nearer heaven
Birds can flutter, as they will,
Than I, and so repeat the whisper
Through the ether blue and still:
"Svala, svala honom!"
# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/A Dreamer's Tale

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A DREAMER'S TALE.
IN the arm-chair in the corner,
Half content and wholly still,
Sat I, weaving idle fancies,
As a rhyming dreamer will
Setting them to sombre rhythm
As the housewife, calm and sweet,
Trod the round of daily duties
With her brave, unfalt'ring feet.
Timidly a basement-beggar
Knocked and asked for warmth and bread
Then along the stair and passage
Went the patient, steady tread.
Then I guessed the wistful glances
Bent upon the little lad;
Well I knew the fresh remembrance
On the face so fair and sad.
Out of this there grew a vision
Opposite my easy-chair,
Made by idle brain and sunshine,
Crossed with threads of daily care.
Thus I saw the gate of Glory
Open wide, and just within
Saw my hostess, clad in garments
Such as earth could never spin,
Full of wonder as an angel
Held a starry circlet out,
Pointing to the jewels shining
All the golden crown about:
" Not so many stars, O angel!
Not so bright my risen crest!
I could do for Him so little
When I sought to do my best."
Then the silver speech of heaven
In my dream I plainly heard,
While the angel round the circle
Told each star with loving word:
"This, O true and faithful servant,
Is the token of thy prayer,
Crowning alms you gave the soldier,
Who you thought would never care.
"This, the word of pity spoken
To the outcast at your door;
This, thy whisper to the tempted,
Bridging times of weakness o'er;
This, the good word fitly spoken
For thine erring Christian friend;
This, thy patience under trial;
This, thy faith firm to the end."
And then—I woke. The bar of sunshine
Down the wall had faded quite,
And the vision with it ended
As the shadows chased the light;
Yet I seem to hear the story,
Seem the starry crown to see,
While the footsteps of the housewife
Beat their rhythm patiently.
# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/"The Common People heard Him gladly"

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"THE COMMON PEOPLE HEARD HIM GLADLY."
THE common people heard Him gladly;" O tender words of life divine!
Where'er among thy blessed teachings
Runs there a sweeter, fairer line?
The Pharisee, with captious question,
Still doubted what He came to teach;
While watching priest and lordly Levite
Listened, to catch Him in His speech.
The ruler over great possessions,
Though sorrowful, came back no more;
And kingly Herod, conscience-smitten
For what the bloody charger bore,
Trembled within his guarded chamber,
Lest that which bought a woman s smile
Had breathed again, and stood before him,
With watchword won on Patmos isle.
But common folk, in sin and sorrow—
The fisherman, with broken net;
The hungry crowd, upon the mountain;
Meek Magdalen, with tresses wet;
Sweet children, with their speech unfettered
And unrebuked, about His knee;
The triple household, meek and lowly,
Whom Jesus loved at Bethany;
The sick, the blind, the lonely widow—
All homeless ones, in this akin,
That He too had no waiting pillow,
No home where He might enter in,—
What wonder these, the common people,
Should hear Him gladly, as He told
The story sweet of homes in glory,
To them so new, to us so old!
He wore no trailing robe of splendor,
He asked no incense-clouded rite;
His temple was the sky above him;
His crown the starry one of night;
Mingling with publicans and sinners,
Hungry and weary by the way,
He spoke at first among the lowly
The words whose echo lives to-day.
# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/A Year-old Sorrow

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A YEAR-OLD SORROW.
A COMMON day, of sun and shade,
To you will come the morrow;
Alas! the August clasping bears
Date of a year-old sorrow,
That trod at first on autumn leaves,
Then peered through Christmas holly,
Went wailing through the snow of March
With plaintive melancholy.
It dimmed the eyes of violets,
Cankered all summer roses,
And shivers as the harvest-moon
The first sad cycle closes.
A year-old sorrow! Still it lives,
Moaning at midnight waking;
It wanders through the twilight gloom,
And weeps with daylight breaking.
It echoes in each boyish voice
With strange, pathetic quiver
Such echo as the rock gives back
That stands across the river.
It clutches at the empty palm
That misses childish fingers;
It listens for a coming step,
And wonders why it lingers.
A year-old sorrow! God knows best
How years, their round completing,
Shall hurry on, till by and by
Shall come that wondrous meeting,
When Sorrow's robe, all stained with tears,
Tattered and soiled and hoary,
Shall flutter off before the breath
That bursts the gate of Glory;
And Shining Ones shall tell us then
That pilgrim robe and fetter
Have purer kept the heavenly dress,
Its brightness guarded better.
# All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems/Baby Looking out for Me

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BABY LOOKING OUT FOR ME.
TWO little busy hands patting on the window, Two laughing bright eyes looking out at me; Two rosy red cheeks dented with a dimple; Mother-bird is coming; Baby, do you see?
Down by the lilac-bush, something white and azure Saw I in the window as I passed the tree; Well I knew the apron and shoulder-knots of ribbon; All belonged to Baby, looking out for me.
Talking low and tenderly To myself, as mothers will, Spake I softly, "God in heaven, Keep my darling free from ill. Worldly good and worldly honors Ask I not for her from Thee; But from want and sin and sorrow, Keep her ever pure and free."
**** Two little waxen hands Folded soft and silently; Two little curtained eyes Looking out no more for me; Two little snowy cheeks, Dimple-dented nevermore; Two little trodden shoes, That will never touch the floor; Shoulder-ribbon softly twisted, Apron folded, clean and white;
These are left me, and these only,
Of the childish presence bright.
Thus He sent an answer to my earnest praying,
Thus He keeps my darling free from earthly stain,
Thus He folds the pet lamb safe from earthly straying;
But I miss her sadly by the window-pane.
Till I look above it; then, with purer vision,
Sad, I weep no longer the lilac-bush to pass,
For I see her angel, pure, and white, and sinless,
Walking with the harpers by the Sea of Glass.
Two little snowy wings
Softly flutter to and fro;
Two tiny childish hands
Beckon still to me below;
Two tender angel eyes
Watch me ever earnestly
Through the loopholes of the stars;
Baby's looking out for me.
# Alabama Great Southern Company v. United States Galveston Chamber of Commerce/Dissent Douglas

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* Opinion of the Court
* Dissenting Opinion Douglas
United States Supreme Court
340 U.S. 216
Alabama Great Southern Company v. United States Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Argued: Nov. 8, 9, 1950. --- Decided: Jan 2, 1951
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, dissenting.
I agree that the differentials established under § 307(d) of the Act need not be measured by the difference in cost between rail and barge transportation. Barge costs as compared with rail costs are, however, a relevant factor for consideration by the Commission under § 307(f) when it determines what differentials are reasonable. When the Commission proceeds to fix differentials without knowing what the relative barge and rail costs are, it is to my mind experimenting as a legislative body might do, not performing the infinitely more exacting task of the rate expert.
The Commission practically concedes that in this case it adopts a different standard than the statutory one. It is admitted that on this record there can be no adequate findings on costs. The evidence for an earlier period (1933-1938) shows that the cost for joint rail-barge routing is greater than for direct all-rail-routing. The Commission refused to pursue the cost study into later years. The reason is apparent. One of the appellees is Inland Waterways Corp. which operates Federal Barge Lines. Inland is a federal corporation, 43 Stat. 360, 49 U.S.C. § 151, 49 U.S.C.A. § 151, and it and Federal are subsidized by Congress. It is that program that the Commission is seeking to promote here. That may be important and desirable. But the standards which guide the Commission are still found in § 307(f). Costs have some relevance to the problem of differentials as § 307(f) makes clear. Congress is entitled to disregard costs completely. But I do not think the Commission is.

## Notes

* ↑ 'In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates, fares, and charges of common carriers by water, and classifications, regulations, and practices relating thereto, the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates upon the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient water transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable water carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management, to provide such service.' 54 Stat. 938, 49 U.S.C.A. § 907(f).
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# Alabama Great Southern Railway Company v. Thompson

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United States Supreme Court
200 U.S. 206
Alabama Great Southern Railway Company v. Thompson
Argued: and Submitted November 9, 1905. --- Decided: January 2, 1906
Messrs. Edward Colston, Judson Harmon, Edmund F. Trabue, A. W. Goldsmith, and George Hoadly for the railway company.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 206-209 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. E. S. Daniels, J. V. Williams, and John O. Benson for Thompson, administrator.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 209-211 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Alabama Gold Life Insurance Company v. Nichols

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United States Supreme Court
109 U.S. 232
Alabama Gold Life Insurance Company v. Nichols
P. Phillips and W. Hallett Phillips, for plaintiff in error.
Jos. H. Bradley and A. B. Duvall, for defendant in error.
WAITE, C. J.

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# Alabama Great Southern Company v. United States Galveston Chamber of Commerce

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Douglas
United States Supreme Court
340 U.S. 216
Alabama Great Southern Company v. United States Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Argued: Nov. 8, 9, 1950. --- Decided: Jan 2, 1951
As Amended on Denial of Rehearing
Feb. 26, 1951.
[Syllabus from pages 216-217 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Harold E. Spencer, Chicago, Ill., for Alabama Great So. R. co.
Mr. William A. Disque, Washington, D.C., for Galveston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Price Daniel, Liberty, Tex., Mr. Charles E. Crenshaw, Houston, Tex., for Railroad Commission of Texas.
Mr. S. R. Hillyer, Chicago, Ill., for Savannah Sugar Refining Corp.
Mr. Philip Elman, Washington, D.C., for appellees U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr. Nuel D. Belnap, Chicago, Ill., for appellees, American Barge Line Co. and others.
Mr. Justice MINTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Act prohibiting the proclaiming any person to be King England or Ireland, or the Dominions thereof

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30 January 1648/9. Source: Firth, C.H & Rait, R.S., eds. (1911), "January 1649: An Act prohibiting the proclaiming any person to be King England or Ireland, or the Dominions thereof", Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, pp. 1263-1264, <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56306>.
    None to Proclaim Ch. Stuart or any other person, King,; without the free consent of the people in Parliament,
Whereas Charls Stuart King of England, being for the notorious Treasons, Tyrannies and Murthers committed by him in the late Unnatural and Cruel Wars condemned to death; Whereupon, after Execution of the same, several Pretences may be made, and Title set on foot unto the Kingly Office, to the apparent hazard of the Publique Peace: for prevention thereof, Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament, and by Authority of the same, That no person or persons whatsoever do presume to Proclaim, Declare, Publish, or any way promote Charls Stuart, Son of the said Charls, commonly called, The Prince of Wales, or any other person to be King, or Chief Magistrate of England, or of Ireland, or of any the Dominions belonging to them, or either of them, by colour of Inheritance, Succession, Election, or any other Claim whatsoever, without the free consent of the People in Parliament first had, and signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose, Any Statute, Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.
on penalty of being judged a Traitor.
And be it further Enacted and Ordained, and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained, That whosoever shall contrary to this Act, Proclaim Declare, Publish, or any way promote the said Charls Stuart, the Son. or any other person to be King, or Chief Magistrate of England or of Ireland, or of any the Dominions belonging to them, or to either of them, without the said consent in Parliament signified as aforesaid, shall be deemed and adjudged a Traitor to the Commonwealth, and shall suffer pains of Death, and such other punishments as belong to the Crime of High Treason. And all Officers, as well Civil as Military, and all other well-affected persons, are hereby authorized and required forthwith to apprehend all such Offenders, and to bring them in safe Custody to the next Justice of the Peace, that they may be proceeded against accordingly.
# Act repealing the Oaths of Allegiance, Obedience and Supremacy

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9 February, 1648/9. Source: Firth, C.H & Rait, R.S., eds. (1911), "February 1649: An Act for Repeal of several Clauses in the Statutes of 1° Eliz.: and 3° Jacobi touching the Oaths of Allegiance, Obedience and Supremacy", Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, p. 1, <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56307>.
    Oathes of Allegiance, Obedience, and Supremacy taken away.
Be it Enacted by this present Parliament, and by the Authority of the same, That the Oathes commonly called, The Oathes of Allegiance, Obedience and Supremacy, mentioned in the Statutes of the First year of Queen Elizabeth, and in the Third year of King James, and all other Oathes of Allegiance, Obedience and Supremacy whatsoever, shall be, and are hereby wholly taken away; and that the several Clauses and Branches in the said Acts, or any other Act of Parliament touching the said Oathes, or either of them be made void and null, and shall not hereafter be administred to any person or persons whatsoever; neither shall any Place or Office be void hereafter by reason of the not taking thereof, or of any of them, Any Law, Custom or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Mason, Robert (5)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Mason, Robert, of Northants, pleb. Magdalen Hall, matric. 1 July, 1603, aged 19.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Maule, Thomas

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​Maule, Thomas, of Salop, pleb. Balliol Coll., matric. 15 Oct., 1619, aged 18; B.A. 17 Oct., 1621.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Mason, Robert (6)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Mason, Robert, B.A. from St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1609-10, M.A. 1613 (incorporated 15 July, 1617), LL.D. 1628; perhaps rector of Strixton, Northants, 1622. See Foster's Index Eccl.