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Serenades in Virginia: Summer, 1863

Serenades in Virginia: Summer, 1863 SERENADES IN VIRGINIA: This poem is spoken in the voice of the Georgia poet Sidney Lanier and is from a book-length sequence based on his life. SUMMER, 1863 / Andrew Hudgins Hearing about a lady who was said to be astonishingly beautiful and lived not thirty minutes ride from camp, we went to serenade her charms, only to be denied by a summer rain, a gully washer that got in my flute before Td played a single bar. So we took Clifford's extra' guitar string, tied a note to their doorknob, and left. Soon after that, we were invited back for meals that made us laugh with glee. The table bowed beneath their weight-- Virginia ham, stuffed eggs, roast hens, and piles of biscuits I sopped full of honey then ate with a spoon when they fell apart. And when they insisted that we spend the night a very pleasant yellow slave brought us mint juleps as we rose. To stop our wagging signal flags the Federals sent a regiment of several hundred men. But we smelled out the trap and answered it with such ferocity that they, thank God, did not perceive we numbered less than twenty http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Serenades in Virginia: Summer, 1863

Hudgins, Andrew
The Missouri Review , Volume 4 (3) – Oct 5, 1981
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SERENADES IN VIRGINIA: This poem is spoken in the voice of the Georgia poet Sidney Lanier and is from a book-length sequence based on his life. SUMMER, 1863 / Andrew Hudgins Hearing about a lady who was said to be astonishingly beautiful and lived not thirty minutes ride from camp, we went to serenade her charms, only to be denied by a summer rain, a gully washer that got in my flute before Td played a single bar. So we took Clifford's extra' guitar string, tied a note to their doorknob, and left. Soon after that, we were invited back for meals that made us laugh with glee. The table bowed beneath their weight-- Virginia ham, stuffed eggs, roast hens, and piles of biscuits I sopped full of honey then ate with a spoon when they fell apart. And when they insisted that we spend the night a very pleasant yellow slave brought us mint juleps as we rose. To stop our wagging signal flags the Federals sent a regiment of several hundred men. But we smelled out the trap and answered it with such ferocity that they, thank God, did not perceive we numbered less than twenty

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The Missouri Review – University of Missouri

Published: Oct 5, 1981

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