Comment of the Day: Charles Steindel: Weekend Reading: Stephen Vincent Benet: From John Brown's Body http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/08/weekend-reading-vachel-lindsay-army-of-northern-virginia-from-john-browns-body.html?cid=6a00e551f08003883401bb09b9a749970d#comment-6a00e551f08003883401bb09b9a749970d: "At this juncture, one might turn to Benet's best known work, The Devil and Daniel Webster:
And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, 'Dan'l Webster--Dan'l Webster!' the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying. 'Neighbor, how stands the Union?' Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground...
Perhaps a trip to the Winslow Cemetery in Marshfield Massachusetts is now in order...
