Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-26
Poetry.
ruR a.yI.y'R MONTHS NEW" TT
GETTA'SBURGH.

There we lay In the noon sunshine,
Far In the front Of the battle line
That stretches away, past the wooded swell
OF the Round.top, sbivercd by shot and shell,
over the ridge, and onward still,
By the graves Of cemetery hill.
Right in front on the wooded crown
OF the hill the rebel cannon frown,
Blaekened and CORY, beyond them lay
The stfened dead Of yesterday
Bluecoat and rebel marking the spot
useless slaughter, where sickles fought.
"Cornstalk Militia" "Nine Months Men,
-scored at and jeered at, oft and again
The standing joke Of the veteran corps
Never had been in a fight before.
How they hootcd and jecred as they saw us strike
Away to the front and across the pike,
Wanted to know how long we'd stay
If the Johnnies should happen down our way?
Babe us be lively and dodge the shot
Wanted to know II we trembled, or not?
Said that shel.holo was seldom cured,
And kindly asked If our lives were insured.
But we never answered, by word or glance,
But took our place in the far advance
beyond the batteries on the slope,
The outmost line Of the "forlorn hope"
Between the hostile ranks we lay;
penihu US Tue oi"V' ~ Oui i,O"' 'n' 50,
Ana before us the inoininB ioNs n"u p'@''U
The ceaseless roar of the cannonade.
but now the Union guns still,
Aud silent the batteries on the hill;
nor shrek Of rocket, nor crash of she'll
Across the solemn stiffness fell;
But the July sunbcams lazily played
M, FURNISHED barrel and olttcrina blade.
Clear and sharp across the calm,
Came the signal cannon's quick alarm.
Over us whirled the anewering smell
From the Union batteries on the swell;
And then a deep and awful roar
Went up from the wooded hill before
At once three hundred cannon pealed;
The thick air qutvered the hrm Garth reeied'
Tho fence-rail breast-worhs in splinters new
And tine hrn ranks reeleu Where 'he sno' c"'
OF shrinking sharpnel and bursting shell.
And the wary veteraps held their breath.
And co,varca and nnlcd I'm that roar 81 death
over the crest, IN the shelterihe WOOD
The Hover OF the rebel army $1,000,
Held by Lee, as last reserve
10 charge when the Union nne shouiu s"e''e
e,aotarod ,ho,r Gro from, l.ft 10 riobt
And ont fro,r the smohe Of the rebel guns
Pickett led his yireinians.
Kemper and Armisted syelled the line
with tho anna Of rreYaa and Caroline
Tbrough the lifting smoke the bayonet sfonc
,y,..o .,,o ,....,, won s,,on, on.
A., hotn.oo,, ,ho roho,o .rd ,boir nrev
- TO- ,,,o ,,or,,,on,.roI.v
Slowly and solemnly rolled away
From the bloody sod the smoke'wreaths gray,
And through Its eddying masses poured
The July sun, on banner and sword,
Lighted the Round-top smoky and dim'
FURNISHED an instant the batteries grim;
Then ghttering gieain on inc crest SET
Glttering steel OF the bayonet,
Lighted the honow where we "!'
And comprised an instant the TANKS oil gray.
Then the roar rang out ana the smoke cioseuin
And the time had come to die or win.
r,r On thu natl, -, Tho roho,s than
, i,,no vail roso IN. ..N,no ,,on,hs, Mani
oror nc uh,r,oa ,ho ,ror shower
rhrouob tbe comm, r,nts ,be sbarn shot tore
W.. ,ha, nrossoa ,ns,.vor,n, r,,hor, riohor,
r,u -, Al, H., A., ,o., ,. aa.,
anu inc niu'Ae'S 'onos-a '"unu'' o'A''
h"'"e''" 'ne oiu''' f"e'
The rebels wavercd Unseen till then
To the foe our single line had been,
Though 30 near they stood we could plainly see
Their fuqers working neryously
On the rif,es, lock and barrels bright
And the quick sharp CLEAN Of their eyebais white
Turning in search of the hidden foe
Who could strike so deadly, so fierce a blow.
Then again the murderous rifles spoke.
And the long line wsyered and reeled and broke,
Broke and parted, and turned aside
From where the yermonters oh ,cked the tide
Yet still on their way to the batteries kept
While through them like hail our bullets swept.
Rebels they were It's true, but still
We felt the hot admiring thrill
That reckless courage claims,
As I'm Ia where the batterys flames