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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...eternal light and splendor I Nor, through all time, shall parting rend, Or grief bemoan, or loss dissever, But fair lost hope and fair lost friend Once more our own, be ours forever I 8 MUSTERED OUT. Where the blessed winter sunshine close beside my pallet falls, While I watch its golden glory steal across the ...
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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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...eternal light and splendor I Nor, through all time, shall parting rend, Or grief bemoan, or loss dissever, But fair lost hope and fair lost friend Once more our own, be ours forever I 8 MUSTERED OUT. Where the blessed winter sunshine close beside my pallet falls, While I watch its golden glory steal across the white-washed walls, While I hear amid the silence Christmas chime and Christmas shout, --I am lying, Faint and dying, Waiting to be mustered out. 'T is the time, I well remember, when I hoped once more to stand Safe within the charmed circle of the joyous household band, Grim, perhaps, with warlike scarring; proud, perhaps, of warlike fame;--Vain my dreaming, --Yet in seeming I can think it just the same. MUSTERED OUT. II5 Weeks ago my comrades parted, --the brave remnant tried and strong, Who had stemmed the tide of battle and the wreck of war so long; When I heard the well-known voices tremble as they said good-by, Doubting, fearing, Death still nearing, It seemed bitter, hard to die. For I seemed to hear the greeting, seemed to see the welcoming eyes, Waiting me beside the hearthstone under our New England skies, --Waiting till the brown eyes faded, waiting till the cheeks grew white, --God, who readeth All, and heedeth, Knows how dark my thoughts that night. But't is past: I thank His mercy that the mists have flown away, And within the purer dawning leading to the perfect day, I can read His hidden meaning through the shadows wrapped about, Il6 MUSTERED OUT. Own my weakness, And with meekness Wait in peace the mustering out. I can thank Him for the spirit that upheld my shrinking soul, Nerved the arm and pointed onward with a power beyond control, For the strength of fire and manhood, --yea, for even wound and groan, Partial giving Is
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