Gen. Lees invasion of the North written by himself—In eighteen sixty three, with pomp,and mighty swell,Me and Jeff’s Confederacy, wentforth to sack Phil-del,The Yankees the got arter us, andgiv us particular hell,And we skedaddled back again,And didn’t sack Phil-del.
May emotions as pure, as that song set a-stirBe the worst that the future shall bring her.
He will be good butGod knows When.
And still, as memory crowds my brain,There’s pleasure in it, too.O memory! thou midway world‘Twixt earth and paradise,Where things decayed and loved ones lostIn dreamy shadows rise,And, freed from all that’s earthly, vile,Seem hallowed, pure and bright,Like scenes in some enchanted isleAll bathed in liquid light.As dusky mountains please the eyeWhen twilight chases day;As bugle…
Thy richest bump of glorious glee,Lies desert in thy brain.When first my father settled here,‘Twas then the frontier line:The panther’s scream, filled night with fearAnd bears preyed on the swine.But wo for Bruin’s short lived fun,When rose the squealing cry;Now man and horse, with dog and gun,For vengeance, at him fly.A sound of danger strikes…
I wrote in both hast and speedand left it here for fools to read
Fierce wolves shall o’er my carcase growl,Or buzzards pick my bones.No fellow-man shall learn my fate,Or where my ashes lie;Unless by beasts drawn round their bait,Or by the ravens’ cry.Yes! I’ve resolved the deed to do,And this the place to do it:This heart I’ll rush a dagger through,Though I in hell should rue it!Hell! What…
Enjoy life, ere it grow colder –Pluck the roses ere they rot.Teach your beau to heed the lay –That sunshine soon is lost in shade –That now’s as good as any day –To take thee, Rosa, ere she fade.
And sadden with the view;And still, as memory crowds my brain,There’s pleasure in it too.O Memory! thou midway world‘Twixt earth and paradise,Where things decayed and loved ones lostIn dreamy shadows rise,And, freed from all that’s earthly vile,Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,Like scenes in some enchanted isleAll bathed in liquid light.As dusky mountains please the eyeWhen…
