South Songs: From the Lays of Later DaysThomas Cooper De Leon Blelock & Company, 1866 - 153 pages |
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... field of battle ! The mother who conceals her grief , While to her heart her son she presses , Then breathes a few brave words and brief , Kissing the patriot brow she blesses- With no one but her secret God To know the 108 The Brave at ...
... field of battle ! The mother who conceals her grief , While to her heart her son she presses , Then breathes a few brave words and brief , Kissing the patriot brow she blesses- With no one but her secret God To know the 108 The Brave at ...
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altar barefooted boys beautiful bleeding blessed blood bore brave breast breath bright eyes brothers brow bugles cannon's crash cannon's flash cannon's roar dear dear boy death deeds dirge Domine dust earth eyes fair fame fathers fell field field of glory fight fire flag flash forever fought Freedom Furl that banner furore Normanorum glad gleams glory grave hands Hark Harvard College hath hear heart hero honor honor lies Jackson Kissing Libera light lips Manassas Maryland Melt the bells mother mountain mournful murmur Neath never nevermore noble numbers o'er Old Land once Peace plain poem prayer repented rifleman Right River rose rush sacred shadows fall shine shore smile solemn Somebody's darling song soul South SOUTH SONGS Southern strife sweet sword swore tears There's thine Thou tide to-day tyrant vidette Virginia wail watched the camp weep words wounded Wrong yore
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Page 67 - Where the dead and dying lay, Wounded by bayonets, shells, and balls, Somebody's Darling was borne one day : — Somebody's Darling, so young and so brave, Wearing yet, on his pale, sweet face, Soon to be hid by the dust of the grave, The lingering light of his boyhood's grace. Matted and damp are the curls of gold...
Page 111 - tis the red dawn of the day, Maryland! Come with thy panoplied array, Maryland! With Ringgold's spirit for the fray, With Watson's blood at Monterey, With fearless Lowe and dashing May, Maryland, my Maryland ! Dear Mother, burst the tyrant's chain, Maryland! Virginia should not call in vain, Maryland! She meets her sisters on the plain,— "/Sic semper!
Page 144 - Banner — it is trailing, While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For, though conquered, they adore it, — Love the cold, dead hands that bore it, Weep for those who fell before it, Pardon those who trailed and tore it; And oh, wildly they deplore it, Now to furl and fold it so!
Page 68 - Was it a mother's soft and white? And have the lips of a sister fair Been baptized in their waves of light? God knows best ! he was somebody's love ; Somebody's heart enshrined him there; Somebody wafted his name above, Night and morn, on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave, and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay, Somebody clung to his parting hand.
Page 78 - Virginian hills Against embattled foes, And planted there, in valleys fair, The lily and the rose; Whose fragrance lives in many lands, Whose beauty stars the earth, And lights the hearths...
Page 112 - I see the blush upon thy cheek, Maryland ! For thou wast ever bravely meek, Maryland ! But lo! there surges forth a shriek. From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland ! Thou wilt not crook to his control, Maryland ! Better the fire upon thee roll, Better the shot, the blade, the bowl, Than crucifixion of the soul, Maryland, my Maryland!
Page 144 - Banner — it is trailing! While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For though conquered, they adore it! Love the cold dead hands that bore it! Weep for those who fell before it! Pardon those who trailed and tore it, But, Oh! wildly they deplore it Now who furl and fold it so.
Page 127 - For he looked so like you, as he lay on his back, That my heart rose upon me, and masters me yet. "But I snatched off the trinket, — this locket of gold; An inch from the centre my lead broke its way, Scarce grazing the picture, so fair to behold, Of a beautiful lady in bridal array.
Page 27 - Twas in the dying of the day, The darkness grew so still; The drowsy pipe of evening birds Was hushed upon the hill; Athwart the shadows of the vale Slumbered the men of might, And one lone sentry paced his rounds, To watch the camp that night.