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"Come, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready! Have you your pistols? -- Have you your sharp-edged axes? / For we cannot tarry here -- we must march, my darlings; we must bear the brunt of danger! / O resistless, restless race! O beloved race in all! O, my breast Aches with tender love for all! O, I mourn and yet exult. I am rapt with love for all! " WALT WHITMAN.
The master of the Villino got the telegram when he was shaving, that morning of October 26.