Music
Riley's story is the subject of Tim O'Brien's song "John Riley" or . It features in his album The Crossing. Youtube recording of the song
David Rovics also sings of Riley in "Saint Patrick's Battalion"
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“... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R’s, a little music and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.”
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“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
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And all must die.”
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—Van Morrison (b. 1945)