...d I'd rather be a soldier, A tramping, camping soldier by John Savage. All these are primarily concerned with the military side of the conflict. Civil matters, too, found poetic voices: Bret Harte 's and , and Thomas Clarke's , stinging denunciations; F. W. Lander's , full of prophetic challenge; Richard Realf's , hopeful and resolute; W. A. Devon's , a friendly, earnest bid for British sympat...