The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-06-09

IT'S said OF course II must be true,
A soldier went to get his ration;
He got some pork and hard tack too,
He sat him down upon the sand,
Prepared to eat his cold collation.,
And then proceeded, soldier like,
TO put himself outside his ration.
He for his bareback reached his hand,
But 10, stwas not where he had laid it;
He saw It moving on the sand;
Thesoldier knew at once what MADE II.
The bread of course, possessed no life,
But then you see that life was In It,
Which makes, OF course, u paradox
We cannot s0lye,-we II not begint.
His Captain came along just then, &,
He called the Caps attention toit,
The hardtack moving on the sand,
And asked the Cap what made tdOat.
The Captain saw 't-said 1t was queer
He Thought 1t very strange was, very;
Then told the soldier with a leer, l.
TO take 1t to the conlmissary. ~
mo need OF that" the soldier said,
an lay thatorder ON the table, T.
For don't YOU see, such living Bread
Win go itself for 1t Is able" ~ ~
We have watched the post together,
Watched in fair and stormy weather:
When the lonely hours, passed slowly as we
stood on picket guard,
Out into the darkness peering;
Ouick surprise by rebels fearing,
While the tleas and the:mOSquitoes they did bite
| us awful hard.
Though full often faint and weary
While we shared the ills together ah! what
happy hours we've spent;
MANY comforts were denied us,
And the hardships often tried us,
Yet, we sleeping dreamed of comfort in the
| little shelter tent
We have braved all kinds of weather,
| Slept upon the field together,
| When our sheets were sheets of water and our
beds were beds of mud.
But our hearts were ever jolly,
| And we meier were melancholy,
Rut the best foot Kent forward, as the SOlulef
always should.
How oft upon the naked Garth we've lain,
| With nothing but the starry covering DER us;
| Weary and cold but yet did not complain,
For brighter days and scenes we saw before us.
| Those were scenes that live forever.
| And they'll be forgotten never;
How we dearly love to cherish all those, stirring
Though the Years are swiftly feeting,
| Memory yet is still repeating go IL
\ 10 our minds those scenes SO yividly we live
l. them DER and o'cr. 80
| Our hairs are whitening, comrades, Z
And our steps are growing slow,
They have lost the spring and ightness
| That they knew so long ago;
But our hearts are warm as ever,
With the patriotic fame, .-. ..''*
| And the dear old starry banner
| Don't we love it just the same?
| Let it once again be threatened,
4 Let traitors hand essay
| To defame our glorious banner;-
Pluck one blazing star away
And five hundred thousand veterans,
| Though their hair be white as snow,
! Would as quickly round 1t rally
AS in days of long ago.
l Now the smoke of war is lifted,
| And the angry clouds are rifted,
And the Sun of peace is shining sweetly ovel
| all the land.
Let our hearts to God ascending,
| In glad songs of praise unending;
Speak the gratitude we cherish for the blessing:
| of His hand. :
| Nav He bless us as a nation,
Grant us evermOre salvation
From the shock and storm of contest and an
l. other civil war. :;
| BY His power may we guided
| Meier again in strife divided,
Let lone Country" be our mottO-''UniOn, ~ b
our guiding star