Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-26


emerald, from the verdure depths of
which cleaned vari-hued blossoms
whose blended odors were borne in
through open window and doorway.
The golden sunset glow had gradual
ly faded from the west, and the soft
gray of the twilight crept adown the
gcntler slopes of the far-off hills and
across the level plain, till all the earth
seemed EMBODIED in its shadow
Anna Brown had been watching the
scene from her seat in the deep window
recess, but as the twilight stiffness be-
gan to grow oppressive, she stepped
out through the window, and, descend
ing the broad stone steps OF the veranda'
she passed down the graveled path,
stopping beside a sweet syringa, whose
wealth of snowy bloom poured incense
all about her. Favorite flower OF hers,
and favorite also of-another.
Humming a snatch of half sweet,
half sad melody, she scanned the
towering shrub in the deepening
gloom. and, spying cluster OF bios
SONS barely within her reach, she put
up her hand and stood tiptoe to grasp
the coveted prize. But a soft step be
hind startled her and another hand
with farther reach was extended
above hers. and grasping, broke from
the bough the cluster of flowers, while
n voice which both her ear and her
heart recognized said: u wish / miSn'
always gain for you such OF ines
lonped-for treasures as lie beyond your
easy reach"
Then while he begged her to let nm
fasten them in the coils OF her raven
hair she marked the little quavei In
his voice and that the hands grew I'M
steady while they worked. bu' you
will not wonder at that nor at what
follows when tell you this was way
h.cl, in those dreadful "sixties," those
years that tried the souls OF men and
the hearts of women; when hearts tna'
one moment ran high with JOY were
The next low plunged in the depths OF
despair; when, indeed, "eyes looked
love to eyes that spake again. ou'
smoke only to tell of coming separator
for years, perhaps-and' on Sd,
,erhans.n for to how many 1t mean
for-everl Oh. the horrors OF war!
In those days mothers kissed IL
partng, the scarce bearded ups .
CONS who, it seemed to them, had pu
act left the cradles over which the!
Ia sung their Flush, my DEAR III
] .,ill and slumber.' Fathers hung OF
40 neclxs of stalwart youths wh'
,,ad Init inst begun to be the stay o
- ;nSrmity of years. Wives VIII
blanchcd lips quivering bade aoleu l, !; :
tbo husband and father, gazing ason'l
;nclv nv turns at the going helper an
,h rs STAYING helpless the dependen
~ whose infant lips called him ia
.har" and hung on him for support
All, you who had no part IN u,, is
GENES too young to realize the angus
III about you, Praise God from wh -,
~" ~, blessings flow," and then JON IN IN
-" with MS that never again ma
ra"yh,ack and blood dripping wings ;,
wy 49, ~, a shadow on our fair land
YOU, perhaps there was only unrs > #
. nv Il the army with banners, VI
;nsririug melody of ME anu u w. S,
49,, 49,, rrace,u,ness of the uniformed Wv ~,
w oldi.,s. as hundreds OF Zee. me-
=, 20 the martial strains. AM IL on
.hat were all there is OF war
p,,t TO our theme. The unssea =,
, p when they had fastened "
nan 'sy blossoms in place caugn. :,
s spo;r Grasp the steadier hands Oh n oh
NV, usoyn and while she was s son ,,ho
Tiled at the suddenness OF w" ',,; III
s, sa;r, George Earle broke out wiz" VIZ
a. s,ppa. must tell you an III, r ma,d
i, 70 YOU quickly, and you WIN ',nda ps
ss %, im1etuosity when you u a'ong he
ny You must have seen an . aaVS t
an alb love you. had not tGIuspS 9,
ruep l, If il till had accomplis ,S b :
speaN Undertakings, but events go, Ne ,
tan tan, led H me to declaration Len