Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-12-31
from the West Chester (rn) Times.
AN EVENING IN CAMP

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AN EVENING IN CAMP
II is evening on the cauip-ground, and the
fading sunlight CLEANS
Over hill-tops, into valleys, and adown the
winding streams;
Weary drill at last is ended, and the sol
diers gather in
To the music of the fifers and the sweet
toned violin.
Noble sons of patriot fathers, loving free.
dom most of all,
Dreading more the tyrants sceptre than
the rifles deadly ball;
Each within his homely quarters, on his
hard, unpillowed bed,
Takes the uninyiting supper, by no loving
mother spread.
Not for them the winter fire where the
family group is found,
Pleasant converse, peals oflaughter, merry
jestings circling round;
Where the mother plies her knitting, and
the sisters read or sew,
And the father paints in language, "mir-
acles Of long ago"
Not for them yet through their changes,
Memory keeps her taper bright,
Lighting up the streams of day time, and
Irs,rts Tho, lnow No solf;.h ,orror ,hro,
their tender pulses send
Throbs of strong magnetic feeling to the
parent or the friend.
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