The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-03


In their memorial" bands
! Seek to honor the departed
With work of loving hands;
| But the Lving's not forgotten,
Mid their garlands and their flowers;
| For the stricken one. still suffering
| Are spent the toili hours
The women Of our Southland!
How nobly have they won
The need of praise and blessing
For all their zeal hath done:
LII the stricken homes OF thousands,
Where the spoilers foot has trod.
Their names in grateful praise and prayer
Uplifted are to God!
The women of our Southland.
Yea, the daughters of State,
BY their noble deeds and effort
Did fund of wealth create.
The widowed hearts of mothers
Will rise and call them blessed.
And the rescued orphaus praise them
When those mothers are at rest.
Oh. Maryland, Your daughters
A wreath of glory claim,
Which ne'er shall fade or perisi,
While virtue has d name
MonS the households Of our South -land
Whore bleeding hearts they've healed
May the God of Love and Mercy
BE their everlasting shield,
The women Of our Southland
From where Potomac laves
The tomb Of our first PATRIOT,
To those far-off Southern graves
Where weep the Texan mothera
Ger many n fallen son,
This work of loving memory
These women have begun.
The women OF our Southland.
thousand gravc-yards hold
Their dearly cherished treasures
Meath their consecrated mould,
But the lowlv mounds are garnishcti
by sweet Affections hand
And iOwcr-hillocks have become
Throughout our Southern land.
The daughters OF Columbia
Choose the evening Of the day
Before their noble sices reuounccd
\ foreign despot's sway
10 deck the graves of loved ones,
Who fell as patriots fall,
When summoned to the conilc,
BY bleeding country's call.
To the women Of our Southland,
Oh then give words of cheer
Nor let them deck unaidcd
That tG'ien cottatruS bier
For each noble son who perished
OF that country formed part
And we'll deserves the homage
Of every noble heart
Oh. w"lucn OF Our Southland,
Where er the tale is told
or all Your love, endurance, faith,
There will you live enrolled
Among the hcroines OF earth
In every land and cline.
Your names and memory kept green
Throughout all coming time.
The following tribute to the gallant dead
is contributed by Il well-known and gifted
writer OF this city:
TRIBUTARY HYMN
fn, ru.. Ueui fUnfttl.,.0t. >t,ldie,s
We bring to-day onr tribute flowers,
Wrll-water'd with our grateful tears
10 str"w them on thcs graTes of ours
Ours, yes in all life coming years
Ven claim these precious graves our own,
Where rest our unforgotten gone,
Their country's glory and her pride.
! Who noblv lived and bravelv died
The heroes who, as martyrs. bore
The cruel warfares pain and toll
. Who ever in the battles fore
Bravea death for their own native soil:
%. can the living Ger forget
The dead to whom they owe such debt:
No. linked with all the glorious past.
Their mcmo"v shall forever last.
Aud now, for all the debt wo owe
10 them who died our land to save,
If but simple flower we throw
Upon Il patriots glorious grave,
That flower, if rightly understood,
VIII tell our hearts deep gratitude,
And speak our love with tendercr tone
Than letters on a marble stone.
The following are the Committees:
COMMITTEE FOR LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Mrs Blankenstein, Mrs Frank
BOVINE. Hislop
Berg,
COMMITTEE FOR TRINITY CHURCH.
Misses Carroll Lieut. W A Gibbes.
Caldwell. Or LeConte,
:, Pope, MIR Trezevant,