Corporal Blackburn - 1864

Sherman's Georgia

 Atlanta has fallen
this past night
the locusts take flight

A purge and a curse
a plague surging east
to Savannah at least

Locusts that plunder, slaughter
and grow with freedom,
this great cloud of bodies

This land soon turns flat
as the port they do reach
this trail of blood
this road of freedom

What plague has been unleashed?
we people are locusts
a lust for destruction
we purge the land
we turn it to sand

And still we hunger.

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