The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-03-20
After the Battle.

After the Battle.
IL vas over ut last. Tho sun which had
walked slowly and caluniy through the long
hours Of that terrible day, had gone down in
q column of fire between the western hills.
and row tho stars were coming out swiftly,
like golden petals scattered all over an azuroI
sky.
And the stars looked down on the 5attio-
Geld, an they had como out and looked down
for scores of years, on the fair young land
which haS risen In her strength and beauty.
until, among all the nations thercwas none
10 compare with her.--oa The great citios that
wero hung like jewels on her green bosom
on the broad harvest ticlds that waved their
,resses for joy through The golden Summers
Ion the house where the dwellers thereof
sat peaceful and happy onder their own vine
and fgtrec--on aif this had tho s,ars which
came Up, nigh, by night. to the wa:chtowers
OF the sky, looked, until ut last there came
change; and nov where the burves,s had
waved their locks in tho summer winds, was
that most terrible sight which tho sun and
stars ever beheld--the sight Of tho battle
field. The coLflict bad ragged hot-and Tor.
rible that day.
The hearts Of tho distant mountains had
shuddered with the thunder Of cannon, aud
the Garth had drank in blood, as in autumn
she drinks In tho eQuinoctiaI rains; but ut
last dsy's awful work was dono, and the
night winds lifted the gray bannors of smoke
from the battlefield.
The sir was full Of tho hoat and smell OF
the powder; the dead lay thick together
with stark, chastity faces, on tho trampled
grass; the wounded lay thicksr, filing tho
air with moaps---riderless horses rushed ter
rified over the field; aud tho dying daylight
apd the solemn stars watched over all. A
little way from tho battlefield ran q. small
stream. making blue fold in tho dark
grass. and two wounded mon had crawlcd
to its banks to siake their thirst
And whom tho two men, crawling along
The brnks. looked up and met shch others
face. they knew they were enemies, and a
few hours ago each bad aimed his rife ut
the otiiar, and that slm had made the
ehsstIy wosnd little way from tho heart,
which hnd drank tho iiic blood Of each. and
each giared desperately on bis adversary q
moment before he fell. lsa
But tbere was no fierceness in the eyes Of
those men now, as they sat face 10 face on
tho Aank Of the stream; the strife and the
angor had all gena now, and they sat still,
dying mon, who, a few hours bofore, were
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