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Page 32 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 53 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 42 - A Yank, with loaded gun, keeps me in sight. A thousand weary miles now stretch between My love and I. To her this wintry night, cold, calm, serene, I waft a sigh, And hope with all my earnestness of soul, To-morrow's mail may bring me my parole. There's hope ahead ! we'll one day meet again, My love and I. We'll wipe away all tears of sorrow then ; Her love-lit eye Will all my many troubles then beguile, And keep this wayward reb from Johnson's Isle.
Page 41 - My love reposes on a rosewood frame— A bunk have I; A couch of feathery down fills up the same— Mine's straw, but dry; She sinks to sleep at night with scarce a sigh— With waking eyes I watch the hours creep by. My love her daily dinner takes in state— And so do I (?); The richest viands flank her silver plate— Course grub have I.
Page 18 - Thus were established the two great principles asserted by the Colonies, namely : the right of a State to govern itself; and the right of A people to abolish a Government when it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was instituted. And concurrent with the establishment of these principles, was the fact, that each Colony became and was recognized by the mother Country as a FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATE. In 1787, Deputies were appointed by the States to revise the Articles of Confederation,...
Page 32 - SPRING, with that nameless pathos in the air Which dwells with all things fair, Spring, with her golden suns and silver rain, Is with us once again. Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
Page 35 - Rappahannock, glorious river, Twice renowned for matchless fight. Heed the story, dastard spoilers, Mark the tale these waters tell, Ponder well your fearful lesson, And the doom that there befell : Learn to shun the Southern vengeance» Sworn upon the votive sword, " Every stream a Chickamauga To the vile, invading horde...
Page 26 - swift vengeance on the rebel" proudly vaunted: Little did they think that night Should close upon their shameful flight, And rebels, victors in the fight, stand undaunted. But peace to those who perished in our passes! Light be the earth above them! green the grasses! Long shall Northmen rue the day, When they met our stern array, And shrunk from battle's wild affray at Manassas!
Page 5 - ... contemplation, and which seemed to them to justify the struggle in which they were engaged. It shows with what spirit the popular mind regarded the course of events, whether favorable or adverse ; and, in this aspect, it is even of more importance to the writer of history than any mere chronicle of facts. The mere facts in a history do not always, or often, indicate the true animus, of the action. But, in poetry and song, the emotional nature is apt to declare itself without reserve — speaking...
Page 6 - ... piety, domesticity, freedom, have made our less impassioned verse at least sincere. One who underrates the significance of our literature, prose or verse, as both the expression and the stimulant of national feeling, as of import in the past and to the future of America, and therefore of the world, is deficient in that critical insight which can judge even of its own day unwarped by personal taste or deference to public impression. He shuts his eyes to the fact that at times, notably throughout...