This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... late for one word, too late for one look--'Twill unsettle her reason, I fear." The mourner lay stretched on the vacant cot, Where his life slowly wasted away; She must have been poor, for her garments were (worn, And old, for the black and the gray In her thin locks were mingled, and hardened (and brown Her hands, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... late for one word, too late for one look--'Twill unsettle her reason, I fear." The mourner lay stretched on the vacant cot, Where his life slowly wasted away; She must have been poor, for her garments were (worn, And old, for the black and the gray In her thin locks were mingled, and hardened (and brown Her hands, like a woman who washes through (town. On the morrow we rode in an ambulance down Where they buried the Union dead. The day was delightful, like June in the North, With the bluest of sky overhead; But the graves were unsodded, and thick yellow clay Clung like paste to our feet and garments that (day. She gathered a handful and bore it away--O, Love--that makes sacred the soil and the sod! Thou banished of Eden, O, daughter of God! July the tenth--Vicksburg has fallen! Not all in vain are the tears we nave shed; Back to the rear our steamships are bearing The sick and the wounded, the dying and dead. Thanks be to God for victory given, Thanks, not in vain are the blood-torrents shed, Thanks, though we wipe off the dew of the dying, Thanks, though we fold the white hands of the (dead. A message from home, from a mother's heart (breaking, As many have broken, the price of our joy--O, bitterest anguish! O, wounded and missing!--Asking in vain for a trace of her boy: Asking of Bruce, --the bright-browed, the gladhearted, Our own precious home-boy, the regiment's (pride;--O, better, surrounded by comrades and brothers, If he in the van of the conflict had died! Breathe ye not a word of the prison-pen to her, The death-line surrounding the prisoner's fate;--Not a word of the desolate longing and waiting, Not a word of exchanges, delayed till too late;--Not a word of the July sun beating upon them, Or the shelterless under a storm-shrouded sky, Not a...
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