I cross the Green Mountain   I sit by the stream   Heaven blazing in my head I   I dreamt a monsterous dream   Something came up   Out of the sea   Swept through the land of   The rich and the free      I look into the eyes   of my merciful friend   And then I ask myself   Is this the end?   Memories linger   Sad yet sweet   And I think of the souls in heaven who will be      Alters are burning   The flames far and wide   the fool has crossed over   from the other side   They tip their caps   from the top of the hill   You can feel them come   All brave blood do spill      Along the dim   Atlantic line   The rapper's land   lasts for miles behind   the lights coming foreward   and the streets are broad   all must yield   To the avenging God      The world is old   The world is great   Lessons of life   Can't be learned in a day   I watch and I wait   And I listen while I stand   To the music that comes   from a far better land      Close the eyes   of our Captain   Peace may he know   His long night is done   The great leader is laid low   He was ready to fall   He was quick to defend   Killed outright he was   by his own men      It's the last day's last hour   of the last happy year   I feel that the unknown   The world is so dear   Pride will vanish   And glory will rot   But virtue lives   and cannot be forgot      The bells   of evening have rung   there's blasphemy   on the end of the tongue   Let them say that I walked   in fair nature's light   And that I was loyal   to truth and to right      Serve God and meet your full   Look upward beyond   Beyond the darkness that masks   the surprises of dawn   In the deep green grasses   and the blood stained woods   They never dreamed of surrendering   They fell where they stood      Stars fell over Alabama   And I saw each star   You're walking in dreams   Whoever you are   Chilled as the skies   Keen as the frost   And the ground's froze hard   And the morning is lost      A letter to mother   came today   Gunshot wound to the breast   is what it did say   But he'll be better soon   He's in a hospital bed   But he'll never be better   He's already dead      I'm ten miles outside the city   And I'm lifted away   In an ancient light   That is not of day   They were calm they were gloomed   We knew them all too well   We loved eachother more than   we ever dared to tell