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"The day had been one of dense mists and rains, and much of / General Hooker's battle was fought above the clouds, on the top of / Lookout Mountain. " -- GENERAL MEIG'S _Report of the Battle before / Chattanooga_.
Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their fountain, / Like its thunder and its lightning our brave burst on the foe, / Up above the clouds on Freedom's Lookout Mountain / Raining life-blood like water on the valleys down below. / O, green be the laurels that grow, / O sweet be the wild-buds that blow, / In the dells of the mountain where the brave are lying low.
Light of our hope and crown of our story, / Bright as sunlight, pure as starlight shall their deeds of daring / glow, / While the day and the night out of heaven shed their glory, / On Freedom's Lookout Mountain whence they routed Freedom's foe. / O, soft be the gales when they go / Through the pines on the summit where they blow, / Chanting solemn music for the souls that passed below.