The Appeal., 1910-05-28

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At Lincoln's call they swell
the ranks, all eager for the
- - fight;
see the shades march thro' the glades-
Tor country. God and right
from caves and sill. DER vale and hill
the Stars and Stripes a-wave,
10 me and drum the legions come, the
loyal and the brave.
see ner there upon the stair-oh, mothe,
With tear-dimmed eve. and sweet pood.
oy. when Daddy donned the blue!
YES. Daddy donned the blue, my lads
out hearts were sad that day.
FOR little Jim-it was his whim-had
gone to don the gray.
Dad called him "Baby brother'-his were
but 18 years,
Alas, alack, go bring him back" they
SAID twixt signs and tears.
MY neart 1t hears. down thro' the years
the echoes signing there,
Wnen mother-heart poured out it's grief
ana hands wrung in despair.
6ut sun we sang, till hill tops rang with
echoes thro' and thro', =
aetran, boys, for the Union fol
Daddy's donned tho blue!
StTRAMP. tramp. the boys are march
Ing. We sing it with vim. I
me train iss pulling out my lads
sing 1t for the love of him!
Way down the track. the song came
back, and echoes family play,
Inc Girl Left Behind Me-" till at last
they die away.
Inc regiments the fields of tents, down
oy Potomac's shore;
Inc silent camp, the sentry's tramp and
~, nome dear homes no more
Ahey re gone, they're gone, the battles
~, on but young hearts never knew
ne !1otners part the aching heart, when
DADDY donned the blue! .~.
A NTlETAM sings her harvest song, her
IA harvest song Of death,
me iron hail rings on the mail-"a
bullet for breath" =
Poor Baby Jim, the feet of him stand
shoeless on the line.
with courage there, born Of despair-1ike
something half divine;
Face powder-stained, while bullets rafned
defiant there he stood.
10 load and fire at each command and
win or die for Hood.
An, Baby Jim, a mothers PRAYER must
needs go up for you,
II wrong or right-it is her plight-"God
oless the gray and blue!"
THE boy in blue-while carnage grew
with Hooker stood all day,
ontll the stars looked down upon ten
thousand swept away.
Inc nieht was still, DER vale and hill, An.
t1etam mourned her. dead;
NO sound was heard, save COO of bird
and silent sentry's tread ~ . -
Inc BOY In blue-ah, well he knew, that
Jim was ever there;
But what of him? Nights sable rim
closed round him in despair;
WIN heart OF steel, for woe or weal-he
sees the bayonets shine =
with quick advance, leap like lance. he
Skins the picket line!
NJ HAT strange intent! Presentiment:
w He seeks among the dead;
He feels touch. a clammy clutch
. then lifts his brothers head.
Ih1s message bear, to mother there u
: said Jim, II am to blame,
But she'll forgive, If she shall Iive-my
last breath is her name"
%, Jim, that I had died instead" cried
out the boy in blue,
, Her heart bled when you ran awav. and
now twill break for you"
Inc gen'ral passed, but held him fast
said he-"A spy, guess, ~.
When I sam thro' with th,.;iife o. you
there'H be one Yankee less.''
IN AY, general, this is little Jim, my
IN mothers baby Jim.
I promised her, swore it. sir. that
I'd be true to him;
Then when I've covered him with earth
and said my last good-by,
Just tell her this-'twon't be amiss-'fo,
Baby Jim de-"
The general spoke, with husky throat
and eyes little blurred:
you'd better take the news YOURSELF
my boy, you've kept your word,
Here, take this pass, and clip the grass
here's compliments of mine:
Tell Fighting joe he'll have a need O.
you when he strikes my fighting
line N
CARVED on a board, they read. who
u pass: ITO Baby Jim the brave"
While birds'a-wing,, their requiem sing
above his honored grave. p:
They re. living still, the hearts that thrill
to hear the story old.
Where phantom feet go down the stree,
and phantom warriors bold;
No sound of flute, their lips are mute, but
shades of heroes come: ..
AS once they came, with hearts aflame
to bugle, fife and drum;
The years go by, with laugh and sigh, but
that day seems to stay,
When Daddy donned the blue, my lads
and Baby Jim the gray!'