The Clopton Chronicles
A Project of the Clopton Family Genealogical Society
By
Catherine M. Warfield[1]
Glorious Virginia! Freedom sprang
Light to her feet at thy
trumpet’s clang
At the first sound of that
clarion blast,
Foes like the chaff from the
whirlwind passed –
Passed to their doom; from
that hour no more
Triumphs their cause by sea
or shore.
Glorious Virginia! Noble the blood
That hath bathed thy fields
in a crimson flood;
On many a wide-spread and
sunny plain,
Like leaves of autumn they
dead have lain;
The Southron heart is their
funeral urn!
The Southron slogan their
requiem stern!
Glorious Virginia! To thee, to thee
We learn, as the shoots to
the parent tree;
Bending in awe at thy glance
of might; -
First in the council, first
in the fight!
While our flag is fanned by
the breath of fame,
Glorious Virginia! We’ll bless thy name.
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[1] War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865,
A Collection of the Most Popular and Impressive Songs and Poems of War Times,
Dear to Every Southern Heart, Collected and Retold with Personal Reminiscences of the War
by H. M. Wharton, D.D., p. 279