The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16

Can halt It as It charges OH
THAT stubborn crest;
Fen Balalslavn, Lodl's Bridge
r'a,ne, tame, compared to this death;
ridge 5sJ.ib
They seek to arrest.
Aye, not from towards who conceal,
But ''foemen worthy OF their steel"
As they, had shown
On many a bloody field before
Ere this we sing Of and deplore.
Yet proud to own.
Bcholdl the smoke Of battle rise, III
In column dense ascend the skies
Is Fit funeral phil,
AS II tho plying eye Of day
His brilliant glance would veil away,
Nor see them fall.
"Thcy fec! They feel You need not
tell.
Il know the meaning OF that yell
The crest Is won!
"Won7" did you say; AYE! won and
lost,
Yet won at such a fearful cost.
TO hold It none"
Overwhelmed by sheer brute force
Tho greatest charge the world has
known
Was at an end:
The beaten foe again returned
TO hold the crest that valor earn!d,
But to defend,
And not pursue; the name Of Lee
Meade's mighty army held at bay,
Nor did nc dare
Attack that shattered, wasted line,
Which stood thore still without a sign
OF coward fear.
All! plying heav'n, why not shield
The heroes OF this CORY field?
In heaps they lie,
BY grape shot torn, by shot and smell,
The lannon's boom their funeral kneu;
Should such men die?
They viii not die while valor stlrs
The hearts Of freedoms worshippers
In every age;
Ayel will their glorious deeds be told
In words that never can grow cold
On historys page.
Mourn, Virginia.; mourn the cost
or many a priceless hero lost,
Naught can repay
Whose deeds their names have written
high,
Fix'd stars that shine in valor's sky,
And blaze for aye. Z,
Mourn, Carolina; mourn the most
For those of that heroic host
Who pass'd away;
Heroes who fought at Gaires's Mill,
Heroes who charged at Malvern Hill,
Were slain to-day.
Her Twenty-sixth eight hundred
strong
Surely the poets lottiest song
For this should swell;
Eight hundred when the charge begun
But eighty when the charge was done;
Sewn hundred fell.
Eight hundred lives no more than one
To those when duty must be done;
s Oh! tell not me
That men who broke highest score
or loss and valor-say no moro
Could traitors be.
"Traitors!" Perish such a thought!
Such men could not be treason taught.
All, Never! Never!
Ills out OF such heroic dust
The Tree of Freedom springs, and
must
Do so forever.
oh! southerns, over cherish them.
AS stars that deck thy diadem,
Throughout all time;
That children's children all may read.
With swelling hearts ancestral deed
This charge sublime.
Oh! that the grand Homcric muse
Wero singing now; she would enthuse
In song sublime
This daring deed and sond 1t down,
Growing In glory and renown.
TO end Of time
The heroes OF the Blue and Gray
Are sleeping side by side to-day
On famous field,
Where Southern valor sought to wrest
From Northern fortitude the crest
1t would not Yield.
Beholdng monuments that stand
Like sentinels on every hand,
To guard their dust,
May all who live and wore the Gray,
AS we'll as Blue. henceforth and aye,
Each othet' trust.
The Union which our fathers rear'd.
BY blood cemented and endeared
BY double ties;
Let each one seeking to restore
Moro perfect Union than before,
Their high emprlse,
And when with hearts and hands to-
day
We honor heroes pass'd away,
Let rancour cease;
And In the language Of that heart.
Ere death had sped Its fatal dart
"Lct us have peace"
Hall, Starry Banner! ever wave,
Not over one solitary slave
A nation free;
OF peace and civic Righteousness,
The world to sweeten and bless,
The emblem be.
his usefulness is e.-Birmingh