Ethel Lynn Beers Quotes

• Only a mother's heart can be
  Patient enough for such as he.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  Mother, Heart, Patient

  Ethel Lynn Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda Elliot Beers (1879). “All Quiet Along the Potomac: And Other Poems”

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• 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.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  Fall, Rivers, Forever

  "The Picket-Guard" l. 41 (1861) See Remarque 1

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• 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.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  War, Quiet, Now And Then

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