The Port Gibson reveille., 1921-05-05
MI RECOLlBCTI0NS OF
CLAIBORNE COUNTY
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1heS ese evening tCF gnUa ta4hsr.
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As they roas uE ta EhR doorway.
sHert tsage ard staanr and fearless.
slnoa TIC LADS Of NrcaiaA-
Milh her title son beside her.
faresi l1rare 81 his father
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LII ais hand. wi1a alE1-v anger.
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i1e siliu Hur BA.st r battered
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~ VIII die ieiare { -slE rou.r
t1I. you gi1rse& .1Ee rebels
an1 siia dsa 81 tea the secret.
rs Hieen4 seza Eim-fetch a halterlg
.ial lheg l2i1 rude hands upon him.
Eare hn1 roughly from his mother,
I. -.r4ggee hEfu ont into the moonlight
Where the children's swing was
swayiag:
1se MS little hands behind him.
! f1E the swing rope made a halter,
Gf ms throat so white and childish.
eglI ne brayely stood nor trembled
4 hen they knotted it about him.
Lhe mother looked in horror,
But she neither wept nor pleaded
1eF voice rang clear and steady
AS she said, my boy, remember
on are 4 soldiers son, and wear
lhe proud name Of McGalebp
/. rom her lips, firm and unshaken,
lhe words had scarcely fallen
u lien, cruelty and sudden,
the childish form sprang upward:
Then poised in air convulsive
Nth agonizing struggles-
She saw her child, with eyebaIls
3ursting from their chastity gocketa
lis face grown livid, turple.
'ressed by the cruel halter.
lis little tongue protrudinp.
lis sweet lips twitchine, writhing.
lis mother Snelt there praying;
shutting out the awful picture
vlth her white hands pressing tightly |
70 her trembling, tear wet lashes.
raging God TO keep him faithful
Jnto death, to save his father.
Soyer, for an instant, yielding
sever dreaming of surrender.
moving we'll the boyish bosom
ield the strong heart of his father.
Grave, courageous as a lion,
moving naught Of fear OF danger
Worthy son Of such a sire
'acing death before dishonor.
hen a cruel oath resounded
'hroqgh the length Of the veranda;
IND her eyes We're slowly lifted
Is her fingers fell and trembled,
ell and twined about each other.
hey had loosed the rope and flung
him
Flung him senseless to his mother.
With a cry she bent above him.
'elt his heart was faintl-. beating
ieating feebly in his bosom.
hen she tried hard to revive him
Ill at last he looked upon her.
looked up at her, bravely smiling,
altered out, = did not tell them,
nd | will not though they kill me.n
,nen again they seized and hung him,
lung him once again before her;
cling her to speak, or bid him
o direct them to his father.
ut the boyish lips were silent
While the mother stood beside him;
wen laid her hand upon him
el ag n.a 10 die, if need be,
Iie. but not betray his father.
nrsee she sai him swung before her
a that fearful. awful struggle,
tAiE tif9 q itltte nero.
uttng pain and death beneath him,
tifh 8 goG-liAe resolution
hen the nfighty conflict ended,
nd the little hero's figure
yung in silence in the moonlight.
howing not the slightest motion.
NOTE This is the second part Of
rhc Old Slaves Story BY Mary Hunt
IeCaleb Tie third fourth and last
art ssh appear in an carly issue Of
le Reveille
Copyright, James +. McCalcb.)