And yet and yet-we old, whose heads are gray,
Whose hearts are heavy, and whose steps are slow
With journeying on this rough and thorny way,

We, who live after them, what may we know
Of their ecstatic rapture thus to have died,

The marvellous, sleepless souls that perished in their pride?

If the worn hearts and weary fall on sleep

With a deep longing for its sweet repose,

Shall not they, likewise, whom the high Gods keep,
Die while yet bloom the lily and the rose?

To each man living comes a day to die;

What better day than when Truth calls to Liberty?

Writ in the rocks of the world's primeval page
Is old past human skill to interpret it,
Save where it speaks to grief of man's gray age,
And with the end of all things is o'erwrit:-
All things save one, that hath unfading youth
And strength and power and beauty-clear-eyed Truth.

On mountain-top-in valley-by the sea,
Wherever sleep the patriots who have died
In her high honor-at Thermopylae,

At Bannockburn-or where great rivers glide,
To the wide ocean bordering our own shore,
Truth sees the holy face of Freedom evermore !

The blood-stained face of Freedom, that hath wrought
For man a magic and a mystery;

Whose bright blade, e'en when broken, yet hath bought
A grave with the eternal for the free.

Freedom and Truth, these went beside them there,
Marching to deathless death, forever young and fair.

"Send the Cadets in! and may God forgive!"

Who spake the word had welcomed rather death. But Truth dies not, and Liberty shall live,

E'en though Youth wither in the cannon's breath, And at the order, debonnair and gay,

They moved into the front of an immortal day.

"Battalion forward!" rang the sharp command;
Guide center!" and the banner was unfurled.
Then, as if on parade, the little band

Dressed to the flag. A sad and sombre world
Thrills with the memory of how they went
Into that raging storm of fire and carnage bent.

A worn and weary world in sorrow weeps

For high hopes vanished at life's sunny morn;
Yet Truth with eyes that never falter, keeps

Her gaze on Freedom's face, that smiles in scorn
Of death for them who wear the laureled crown-
The early dead, who die with an achieved renown.

Creeds fade; faiths perish; empires rise and fall;
And as the shining sun goes on his way,
Oblivion covers with a dusty pall

The life of man, predestined to decay.

Yet is there one thing that shall never die;
The memory of the Dead for Truth and Liberty.

[From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, May 16, 1902.]

COMPANY C, THIRTY-SEVENTH VA. INFANTRY.

A List of the Officers and Privates and Brief

To the Editor of the Dispatch:

History.

Will you kindly publish in your Confederate Column the enclosed roll of Company C, 37th Regiment, Virginia Infantry? By so doing you will oblige the few survivors of that old company, which was as gallant as any that ever kept step to the music of "Dixie" during the sixties.

And right here I want to thank the Dispatch for its generous defence of the worthy Confederate soldier. We claim the paper as our official organ, as some of us commenced reading it in the camps

and trenches around Richmond, and we value it greatly. I wish every Confederate was a subscriber to it.

C. B. PRICE.

THE ROSTER.

Roll of Company C, 37th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Third Brigade (Taliaferro's), Jackson's old Division, Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

Captain-J. F. McIlhany, dead.

Lieutenants-James L. White, wounded; John D. Duff, killed; J. D. Alderson.

Sergeants-John W. Fickle, dead; Mike Powers, dead; William H. Fuller, wounded; Floyd Carico.

Corporals-James L. Williams; John T. Gray, wounded; William Carson, dead; C. B. Price, wounded.

PRIVATES.

Thomas C. Aston, wounded; dead.

Orral Anderson.

Melvin Anderson, killed.

James Adams, dead.

James Bussey.

John Bussey, killed.

Fleming Burk, killed. John G. Burk.

Edward Ball.

James Ball.

C. C. Baker.

James Boyd.
R. C. Boyd.

Wesley Barker, dead.
Habe. Bickley, dead.
John Buckles, dead.

Isaac Boyd, dead.

Charles Breadlore, dead.

William Breadlore.

Joseph Bausell, dead.

John Belther, killed.

George Bays, dead. James Bays, dead.

Thomas Harris, wounded; dead.

Jefferson Jessee, Sr., killed.

Jefferson Jessee, Jr., dead.

James Jessee, dead.

Samuel Keller, transferred.

Jerry Kelly, dead.

Henry Kelly, dead.

William King.

Thomas King.

David Kimberlin.

David McCrut, killed.
John McElhany, dead.
Samuel McCloud, killed.
Hugh Mutter, dead.

Hensley Mead, dead.

Charles McElha, dead.
Jacob Mitchem.

Hugh Mongumery, killed.

Thomas Morton.

John McFaden, dead.

Joseph McCarthy, dead.
John McCloud.

Henry Moore.

Harry Mays, dead.

C. W. Powers.

Calvin Powers, wounded.

William Powers, dead.

William Parks.

G. W. Seacott.

James Shell, killed.

Isaac Shell, wounded.