Joan Baez
Joan Baez - I Saw the Vision of Armies lyrics
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I SAW THE VISION OF ARMIES (Walt Whitman) I saw the vision of armies; and I saw, as in noiseless dreams, hundreds of battle-flags, borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles, I saw them, and carried, hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody; and at last but a few shreds of 'the flags left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) and the staffs all splintered and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, and the white skeletons of young men, I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all dead soldiers, But I saw they were not as was thought; they themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not; the living remained and suffered, the mother suffered, and the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffered, and the armies that remained suffered..