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Though war-signs fail in time of peace, they say, / Two awful portents gloom the public mind: / All Mexico is arming for the fray / And Colonel Mark McDonald has resigned! / We know not by what instinct he divined / The coming trouble -- may be, like the steed / Described by Job, he smelled the fight afar.
Howe'er it be, he left, and for that deed / Is an aspirant to the G.A.R.
When cannon flame along the Rio Grande / A citizen's commission will be handy.