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Ethel Lynn Beers

  • “'All quiet along the Potomac,' they say, / 'Except now and then a stray picket / Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, / By a rifleman hid in the thicket ... '”

    • Ethel Lynn Beers,
    • "The Picket Guard," in Harper's Magazine ()

  • “All quiet along the Potomac to-night; / No sound save the rush of the river; / While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — / The picket's off duty forever!”

    • Ethel Lynn Beers,
    • "The Picket Guard," in Harper's Magazine ()

Ethel Lynn Beers, U.S. poet

(1827 - 1879)

Full name: Ethel Lynn Eliot Beers.