The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-07-04

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DILL HOLMES,
deadly truce Z ended! the tempest shroud
. Like . morning mist It gathered. like thunder
cloud 1t breaks! <S q SIS s''.5 AS
Oh, the sight our eyes discover 8. the blu.-black
smoke blows over! y
= The sred-coats stretched in windows as mower
Here q scarlet heap is lying, there headlong
#z. crowd is flying .s.s i
Lie billow that has broken and il shivered Into
Il. spray. . .9s ~ q. q r 4 /
Then We cry, THE troops are routed! they b.at
God be thanked, the fight g OVERT All! the grim 4
old soldiers smile! #-z-%t !
Tell U.s. tell US why you look SOP I've could hardly
Are they heated 8? Are they beaten7 Are they !.
beaten z, wait awhiie!" = = = 4; II
Oh, the trembling and the terror; Tor too soon We
saw our error: .#:.% :
They are banleds not defeated; we have driven &
Z. them back In vain; ~. 49, 4 q u
: And the columns that were scattered; round the
. :: colors that were tattered, ,* Is I
Toward the suen silent fortress turn their belted
breasts again. .~#. 81 .#3' 81: b i
All ct ono once as we are gasping 10! the roofs Of
Charlestown blazing! -. 4
They have fred the harmless village; in an hour
a~:1eT 1T will be down., 49,. -.s z ~
me LORD n Heaven confoundN them, rain his IRE
and birthstone round them, :.5:e 5t Z +
The rebbing. murdering red-coats, that would burn
~. peaceful town! s ! .-s. ..=s: i
They are marching, stern and solemn; We can see
',.2 each massive column S. #sf z*hS1 n = y
AS they near the naked earth mound with: The 7
- slanting walls SO steep - !
Have our soldiers got faint hearted. and in noise
:: less haste departed? ..z .:%* 3: .7- al, Z
Are they spanic struck and helpless? Are they
y palsied or>asleep? s... 1...,7,.
Nov! the walls they're almost under! scarce rod
the foes asunder! z# !;
Not hreloek flashed against them! Up the earth
work they will swarm! % %N.@S .4s@&zs%t r.
But the words have scarce been spoken when the
omtnous silence is broken,
ana believing crash has emptied all the
.,~ vengeance Of the storm! 2.
SO again. with murderous slaughter, pelted backs
-. ward to the water, q
Fly Pigot's running heros and frightened braves Of
And shout, SAT last they're done Tor it's their
barges they have run for; *s. II i. ~. !
:Iney are beaten beaten beaten, and the battles;
= over now!" - - = .-S......
And we looked, poor tinid creatures, on the rough
old soldiers features, s So =
our lips afraid to question, but he knew whatwe
Not sure he said; keep quiet:.eonce more; Il
,l.- guess they'll try IT, z.. 49,
HERE'S damnation to the cut-throats!" then he
handed me his fash,
s.,'nt 5 sal a., you're booking shaky drop
atearea therel be more troubla atore this
job lis DONE" - ~ ~ - -
50 took one acolehins swallow; dreadful faint
*standine:there from early morning when the nrins
<:~.: was begun. & .
All through those hours of trial had v,atchad..
-. calm clock dial, .: .ssE *.. 49,.
AZ the hands kept creeping, creeping they were
creeping round to four, }3
When the old man said They're forming with !
49,. their bayonets fixed for storuainE; -. . /
=. the death grip that's coming they viii ty
the works once more" .@@.- E...S.5
with the brazen trumpets blarins, the flames bel s
hind them glaring, =
come: 1: @% :. - - i
sun onward nec1 upward toilins like dragons fold
Like the rattesnakes shrill warning the reverberat
ing drum! I
Over heaps all torn and gorys shall tell the fear
How they surged above the breast-works a. sea
breaks DER a deck:
How. driven yet scarce defeated. our worn-out men
With their powder-horns all empty, like the swim
mers from wreck? :
It has all been told and painted; as for me they
Z. say I tainted 5z .., s7s -. 81
And the wooden legged old corporal stumped With
me down the stair. - $3.50
When I woke from dreams safrighted the evening 4
lamps we're lighted, $50 * 4
On the hoor youth lying his bleeding breast IS
n was bare. s5 "a s. s.
and heard through all the furry, ''send for war
rem! Hurry! hurry. .s: $szs.5s.--ss 81
Tell him there's soldier bleeding and He'll come
..:s 45 and dress his wound IT. 81
~ We knew net5t the morrow told It's tale Of 4.
How the starlight found him stinening on the dark Il
and bloody ground. .*s..@.s 1,. s. s.@.s-Ss.s
Who the youth was, what his name A.s, whore, /,
-, u, !, the place from which he. cauae was,