Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-04-07
The PRICE OF PEACE.
BIT REQUEST .


.-on.u p.e.d. with hurried step, her lone and
III. ..ttinE sun with golden ray upon her darE
Which law disbevelleS on Der breast and many &
"a -, ibo,s .rosses-sorrow's gift-whils
On Der breast they lay.
Hh.uuruursd disconnected strains, Is to and fro
Ard Wildly 5s.ned her pieieing eye, aud on her
wasted face -, a.,
Absrniug ansh Of feyer Slowed'-then rolled the
of thossbi from those thin, coral lips, as passion
ate she cried;
"P..ee peace, they tell mo peace has come, they
szy the war is DER; . 49,,
The baiIe-ery, the shrek OF DEATH shall ma inc
They bid my heat rejOice-be glad they bid my
tears to cease;
Ys, VS.. nv heart thnu shoHldSt rejoice, for
thou hzust paid for peace!
"Ah, let count the price Snee nore' ior rear
ny lips restrain
III. f.intsat ne that they should give to that re-
Ih.s a son, nobie boy just entered manhOod's
su, be forgot his mothers tears when first the
eAnnou'E boom 81. ~ =
Bss hard upon our southern shores, ali = was
And Esli.ntly he bore our Gag, and CALAMITY he
never saw my boy again. lthey say my tears must
Bat, Herbert, drop for drop with thine, my heat
paid blood Jor peace
"inothsr son, stripping boy, who, always by nv
Fr.iI a. a lilly, was content forever abide;
Not eighteen summers had ] nursed, win an
mothers care.
This tender plant, when orders came my Ouy ehl'u
Prom mine ,mbraoe. knew he'd die, and on my
IL.Trsd bis iife-besought and wett, bat nc, it
eou ID not be
But dro-p'd and died, know not where,-"e new
Oh VINE with. thy soft blue eyes hush hush,
ny tears must cease, =
Y,t dsrlins With dying groans paid an part J'r
., ~ 10th ar. rope.--who had / left! None but
the fond true heart, ..aa.
Hhe'd mingled tear for tear with mins,--he " no
had borne part 80,
Is every throb OF anguish wild "bleh s'i'i III!
HLo.. .vss were dim, whose hair was grey, with
nights of weeping spent
Fer these sons. thought that We 'hiO al
tLis mid light gloom, -
H-a.S. hand in hand, walk mournfuly together
20 the tomb
" Bat war inrstiats claimed him too; saw nam
too depart,
ASd something made Of stone thihk' was :"
n FOR \ heart
] could OF weep for many day was alone a,ohe
with thai cold weight within my DTe1S'- '""'
kezyy heart OF stone
Tears came and melted Il at last in prison FAR away
Heavy and worn, uncarcd for too, lac Lang uSh'o
Bat Herbert and our Willie came, and bad" the
captive 90;
Thy broke his chains, know lhcy did the angels
told TIE 50;
Aud when they bore his soul aloii, and babe his
suHcrings cease.
! paid ia spirit his grave all utt st0ed JF
Peaos-
- YuSf Tr>joie~ perchsnce might, but vas TINS
all the price
All did ny jewels, did my tears, mg broken heart
sufics =
ss! count u"on TIA. battlefield ten thousand name
isss graves, nh,
CSl on The winds fo sghs and EroAns---go tell the
-,
To bring thoir d,ad---lhe prfson walls to shrek
tbsir siek'niuG ,siss.
csEssntrsto, II y.u'Ve power tonight "lao"s
ard orphan wallis: -, NJ, -
Es.7 broken hearts or broken hearts, III Flty oio
yuu cease.
L.Ithsa you'Il have hair The pric that "o have
p.if Iar peace
.Thsy say I'm mad may be 50 they've bound
iH thIs cell ,
] know not when they brought me hero, and moth
aE can tell -,
or H-Av"r above earth beneath: but oh III
Iifs shall eeSse,
Though reason. gone, the price RI kno'o "hieh
har, paid FOR Pence
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