Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-15
Written for the Dispatch.l

Reunited.
BALLAD.
Dedicated 10 the Northern and Especially % th'
New England Press.
A youth did love maiden far,
Twas many years ago.
Their lives we're free rom every care
Their love was pure as snow.
Love IN their hearts was like guest
At some ricn banquet placed
Where every DAINTY Wand pressea
But he ghtend still The tasIe'
She dwelt beside the winding James
lie on tho Hudson blue;
Between their homes the angry na'nS
OF civil suite upgreW.
The youth Of his dear, native land
Affection true dii yield
His life he held a. her conmano
Hor honor e'er 10 sDield.
The maiden. too. devotion gave
To her yirgiuian home
Retv,een the maid and lover brave
These bonds Of birth dld come.
His country called him % her SIDE,
His love lured him 10 stay;
Twas either now 10 lose bride
Or traitor De Away
40 come with me, my darling care
"1o my far-diatant Northland, where
We will BE- sweetly wed
Twill then 20 tho wars away
And win high rank aud lame;
And II upon the held stay
You'll wear famous name"
The maiden's eyes llt up with fire,
Her checks with 1amc were flushed;
Tho youth Perceived her sudden IRE,
4 - a. ...A a TA
"Nay, ask me not" tho maiden crisd'
MY craven back 20 turn
On parents, friends, aud nreslie
Nhue war 8 flames round them DurnI
"Take back tho words thy recreant mouth
DIdst speak and not thy hearIl
lam daughter Of tho oo1th'
and from her shall not part.
HWhile troubles thcken round hor head,
And foes Cypress and STAY,
ia sooner / were lying dead
Than from her steal away !"
The youth her constancy admired.
lie ursised her courage too;
His heart with love was deeper hred,
lie vowed no would DO true.
"Forglye me, Clare, my th0ughtess WofNs !.
lie criod. a. 10 his breast
H. clesped her: mo hand but the Lords
shall thee Ger from me wrest
although North and South may foemen be,
our piigntel faitn snail stand;
Fond hearts can feel no enmity,
Love knows 10 alien land
"Ny country's call must obey
10 heed II not were wrong;
And then TO tnee III haste away,
And eyermore belong
To his far home tbs youth returned
And glrt his armOr on,
The placeman's post oil saleIy npurnea
With patriotic scorD'
And to the front with dying feet.
impatient Of deiay
The 61wafd-pressing FOE 10 meet,
lie took his manly way.
Wbereyer nercest ragged the strife,
There was no ever found
On many q held hts stream OF llie
Refreshed tho fainting ground.
And. a. 'twere from the soil, uprose
Kich honOrs thick and fast,
Which round his name IN shining rows
flames hands forever clasped.
Tho maiden in her southern homo
Bemoaned her lover sal;
His LOYALTY her tears made come,
His yalor made her glad.
Her image still dwelt in his heart
In camp and carnage red;
He sOrroWed that their lives apart
should thus 50 long DC led.
Four wears their bleeding feet dragged by.
And left where they nAd gone
A bloody trail, with dead heaped high,
A land rent anu ior!orn-
No word from each had come to greet
The other all this time;
Their hearts, though Oiled with memory sweet
Were scared with sorrows rhyme.
Foraueht each knew Tines wrecking wave
Their love had long since doomed,
Hemay have found a soldiers grave,
The daisies DER nor Dio0med.
At last the cloud Of war rolled BY,
shone DER the mountain ranges high
And peAmed atnWart The plain.
The maid Que morn her pensive way
Took through The deTy mead,
Fsch NM and blade and blOss0med spray
It's sweetest fragrance shed
She paused beneath an old OAK tree,
Whose spreading branches wide
Had often sneltered them when no
Had still been at her side.
sho aaw their welded names sun clear
Wnere he had carved them glad;
Her cheek received the tender tear
or recollection sad.
Down on the swsrd she weeping knelt,
"A mamOry in her stirred,
And while her neart upon him dwelL
HIS voice she thought she heard.
II sounded a. 'tsere far away.
so fafnt the cadence seemed;
HOPES happy thrill she forced to say,
she feared che had but dreamed.
upon her feet she trembling rose,
And cast look around;
No rivers rushing torrent lows,
On iLs sea-iourney pound.
A fast az iies yon fosming steed,
With rider bravo and Irue,
Whese fond desires still faster speed
AS thelI goal stands 10 view.
Tho welcome, long-sought, blissfulasht
Rreaks on her beaming eyes;
moment and rosebud white
she on his bosom lies
Tho stslwart son Of the strong North
clssps 10 his heart again
The dsrk-eyed daughter OF the south,
There 10 foroer remain.
GEoRGE W. CHILD
Richmond. May s7th.
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