Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-31

stood out the faces of the long ago. youuI
and fresh as we knew them when they yO..
unteered, the cruel scars ell gOne-tha
blood stains washed away
| Now and again came forth clarion voices
of command; voices silent since we heard
them on the beleagned line Of Petersburg,
or in the bloody angle of Spottsylvania;
voices which startled the dOting memory,
and make the old heart leap, Il bat for 1ls
throb. with the pulse of long dead youth.
l saw and heard them al Just IS We
knew them. Your brothers and ours Your
old general and ours. No longer arrayet N
| opposing ranks, but side BY side as brethrcl
Once again l heard the steady tramp md
saw the wheel and flash of marching tho--
sands, at a grand review.
| On a sunny slope, in most pel.ucld ar,
beneath streaming standard famed gy
| supernal breezes. | saw assembled the led
and staff of the army of peace.
| There sat Grant on Egypt, and Of l5
side was Lee on Traveller, the same Grant
| and Lee we knew of old. save that the lines
| of strife and care were smOOthed ava.
| Clustered around them in fraternaI groups
| were all our early loved and lost.
| There were Sedgwick, and Reynolds and
| Observation-Disclosures Sydney Johnston,
| StOnewal Jackson and Pat Cleburne.
There were Mcpherson and Phil kelr'
ney There were Garnet and ArImstead
with their Gettysburg sInile-there were
the Pegrams, standing near to Meade.
Hancock and Breckenridge were side oI
side-Bragg and McClclan-Thomas ana
Hood-Stuart and Sheridan. Thus wastl
hillside thronged Thus were they Mlng'
ling in indiscriminate fraternity.
From the Willowy Ferry. where tie
river of Time is crossed where 30 !oi3
CtnnnT-a1i
rested beneath the shadow OF the trees
saw an escort advsncing-up.-th the me Il
came, surrounding two aged warriors
walking arm in arm. From rgAJ 10 ei-
swelling and rolling and dying away av45
the lines, with the thrill of the Odeh u-'2
came the wild cheering, rs Sherman ll.
Johnston passed on to It Join their .Ohg -'7'
hosts.
Then there was missing Of men. ia.
hushed expectant stiffness, as the l"e-'
Silent spoke thus: ,
Soldiers of the army Of the nero Ue'-'
This day let all rejoice.
By the clearer light of truth ana oFo1us.
view which we possess, We nave
brethren since long ago in this ANA u
eternal peace.
Yet hath our happiness been ever -
pered by regret at thought OF our earH
brethren-still divided in fratercidal sll--''
This day diSpeiS that gloom. -.,-,,
Arm in arm; no longer foes, but ore.LLT-
in a reunited land; Sherman and Joln t3!-.
this day reioin US, with these glad IlIlI-s
of great joy, more priced by US ti'ah --'
earthly treasure.
1t was l who first proclaimed IL
1t was Lee who counselled II. Ia.
It is the morning and the evening pray
in the camp of the hero dead
Let US have Peace" 18th,
At last the boon is granted 70 our oieD
rem in the land for which we died. "a,
As Joy unutterable lit the countenahtss1,
the throng-as the heavens were shah IN
with laundering salvos mingled ca
mighty cheering-the vision passed a "~i
/ awoIie, an old man on the spot VIII VIII
had been young; alone, on a high"a! -, ~ w
had been thronged-yet hlled WIN -,
OF that vision, and the task OF lis ln'e-P
tation -bs
May it inger with the old soldier; %. o. ria "a
North and South till they realize -
harris
May its contemplation I'LL their I ns4 he
with hope, faith and charity an'
greatest Of these is charity