Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-12-08

How Jamie Came Home.

AAc" nome.
BY WILL n. c,RLETog
Come. mot yer, set the kett On
And put the ham and ~ .st.fl
something 10 eat
And make It neat
To please our Jamis's mouth d sr8.
For jamie is oUr only sos vu bHJs.
Q he rest have petished long go
ils's clming from the wars L LIzht.
And his blue eyes will > arkle urislt
Ana his old smile will p ay right Tree
His old, lived home again T. see.
! say, fort twas a cut'u thing
Thst jamie was not mzinsd nor Killed
Five were the years,
With hopes and fears,
And gloomy, hopeless tidings illed
And many a nigat, the past five year
We've lain within our cottage here
And while the rain storm came ana xx.rt
We've thought o. jamie, in his tent
and offered many silent PRAYER
That God would keep him In Ills eara
say fort Z trIs a Gurus thing
AAt Jamie was not maiined OF killed
rive we're the years,
hlth blood ana tears
With cruel, bloody battles dlled.
ana many morn, the past 1--WE wear
We We kue-t around the hreside here
Au1 While we thought OF bleedinl. on.s
oi blazing towns, and smoxfur gtIns
we've thought Of him and breatbed q ,,-,,.,
That goa would keep HIN n II care.
Say, Addie, girl. jas; come away.
Touch not dish upon the sheii
Mother we'll knows
Just how u roesi
Mother shall set il al herself
There's nothing to a wan iererf. lost.
b lsl q i0od that mother cooks
here's nothing T. waaderer's taste
b. ze food where mothers hand Is traced.
.u-h Eood a sisters heart and will,
s u'ther's love is better still
a1oEs ths side 10 put his plate.
knows the place % put his chair
Many a day,
With spirits gay,
DE- talked, ami lau -hed an eaten there
AZ. l-olSn i've y ears have come and s11c
.l- hearts Tor him beat truly On,
il Keep place lIr him o. ts,.
We.l as ere he went away.
Aai he shall take. as good as new.
bis ola place 40 the table too
Amt opposite 60 him again.
luu- place, my Addie, girl, shall be
Mother, our place,
And kind old face,
d So il have opposite O. ms.
Aud we wiA talk OF olden days.
ii al. Jlr former words and wayg
A1- we ~ I'D tell hun what has pa sei
since he, dear boy was with us last
Ana how our eyes have fast srowndIu
HheneF n ws c1lye-ssi OF him.
Auths shah tell US of his a-hts.
ll.. marches, sgIrulsles. aud nh
Many tllo
Wil make Us pale.
And pity those who had o. rall
40 many tale OF sp1rtiye style
NII 20, perhaps, d make us sm 9.
and when Dis stones are all done,
An when the evening well has guae.
Ne'I knee. around the hearth once more.
A1i thank the Lord tho war is Ger.
uark there's q s.Uutl hos coming now.
mark, mother there's tae SQUAD o1cl mora
Now on our feet,
" tn smiles % -reo:,
heA meet him al tie opening door
q. is a heavy step and tone.
Too heavy l4r, l1r ouo alone
Perhaps tho company eAteuIs
TO some oi his old army friends
And who thuy he. OF whence they cane,
tl course Hc'll welcome them tho .am=.
what bear ye on your shoulders. mem
d it nv jamie sta k, an deal
What did you say
Once more, pray,
dli not -ather what y guu said,
What drunk you tell that Liz Co me-
What uRuSh o, God, 10 cannot be
IL cannot be my jamie dear
Lying IN drunken slumber here
ltis, j., is, as you have said
hen, lay him on yoa waiting bed.
N jan e. Aes bearded man.
Though hearing stll some hoy hood traces.
Stained with the ways
Of reckless days
Flushed with the inecup iu his face
Swellec with the fruits OF Re- -Eless yeas
Robbed az each ttait that e'tr endears
Except the heart-distressi one
That Jamie is our only son.
Oh, mother, take the kettle 0f,
ana set the ham and eggs away
What was ny crime,
And when the time
That ] should live 70 see this cly
For aii the signs ! ever drOW,
AMI all the grief ever knew,
And all the tears / ever shed
Above cur children that are dead
And all the care that creased my brow
We're not o. what comes Ger me noE.
! would 60 God, that when the three
We lost were hidden from our view,
Jamie had died,
And by their side
Had lain all pure and spOtless, too
] would this rain mi ght fall above
The grave Of hun we j0yed 10 love
Rather than hear its coming traced
Upon this roof he has disEraced
Eut mother. Addie. cone this way
And let us kneel and humbly pray.