Solferino
 
 
We came to battle, strong men
trained and ready for whatever came
assured of victory for Italy, as certain
as were our northern enemies
of a different outcome.
 
Forty thousand died before the dawn
and more to follow, but both sides left
that field with colors to remember,
 
the purple of our uniforms,
the stains of our blood,
merging upward to the light.
 
-Marge Simon
 

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