The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1868-02-27

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At tho altar Of their nation
Si1od that mother and her son;
He-ths victim Of o5Iation,
Painting for his immolatioB;
She--iB pfiestea hoiy station
Weeping words II conservation,
While God smiled bis appreciation,
Blessed the boy selfabnegation,
Checred the mothers desolation,
When the sacrifice was done
Forth, like many noble other,
Went be whispering son and low.
Good bye-pFny for me, my mother.
S,sier, kiss mel farewell brolheT!H
Aud I've str0ve his grief 70 smother.
70 III, with spirit proud aud peerless
Forth, with footsteps firm and fearless,
Aud his parting gaze was fearless,
Though bis heart was lone aud cheerloss
Thus from all he loved, togo.
10, yon Gag Of freedom flashing
In ths sunny Southern sky,
0n---to death and glory dash;ug--
on-~whsrc swords are changing -claAhiug-
pn.-wherc balls are crushiRg-- -craAhingl
Op-- mid pcsils, dread, appahingi
On they're falling iallsBg-laiIingi
On--thcy' re groEinE fawer-fcwerl
On~-thair hearts bea, all the irnar!
uu- pn--on no fcar--ro faltcr
on--ihough round the battle altar
There were wounded victims grooming
There we're dying victims moaning
On right -dea'h--danger braving--
Warning where their tlsz WAS waving,
And bAp,ismAl blood was iaving
! With tide Of crimson water
All thai field of death and slauEhteri
On--still on--thnt bloody layer
Made them brave and made them drawer;
On--with never a halt or wayer--
On they're battling bleeding -boandiag,
While the gloridus shout is sounding
We will win the day or diel'
And they won III Routesl--riye,---
Recled the foeman's proud array;
I They had struggled long and AtriSen,
4 Blood ~ torrents they had given,
But their nnks, dispersed and craven,
Fled disgraeefully away.
Many heart was lonely lying
fhcrc that would not throb again;
Some we're dead and some were dying;
! Some wrrc silent, some were signing;
/ Thus 10 dic--lone -uuattended
/ Uubcwept aud unbofriended--
On that bloody battle plain.
Whcn the twilight, sadly, slowly,
j Wrapped is mantle Ger them all
| Der those thousands lying lowiy--
Hdshed in silence deep ard holy
There was one Ibis blood was flowing,
| Aud bis last Of life was going a
And his pulse faiut-ziainter beating,
Told bis hours we're few and floetingi
And his brow grew white and whittier,
And his ewes shone bright and brighter;
There he lay like infant dreaming,
j With his sword beside him cleaning;
For the hand in life that grasped II,
True in death still fondly clasped e.
There his comrades found him lying,
Mid the heaps OF dead and dying;
Aud the sternest there bent weeping,
Der that lonely sleeper sleeping.
Twas the midnight; stars shone round him
Ia a shroud Of glory bound him;
And they told us how they found him
Where the brayest loye TO fall.
Where the woods like banners bending,
Dropped in glory and In gloom:
There, when that sad night was ending,
And the faint, fair dawn was blending
With the stars now fast descending,
( There they mute and monrnful bore hirn
With the stars and shadows DER him;
There they laid him down, 40 tender.
! And the next days sun and splendor
Flashed upon my brothers tomb
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OK the lst day of January, 1868, "
owed the nice little sum of two thou
sand five hundred and eight million
one hundred and twenty-five thousan
six hundred and fifty dollars and tc
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