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The boy's book of battle-lyrics : $b a collection of verses illustrating some notable events in the history of the United States of America, from the colonial period to the outbreak of the sectional warEnglish, Thomas Dunn

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The boy's book of battle-lyrics : $b a collection of verses illustrating some notable events in the history of the United States of America, from the colonial period to the outbreak of the sectional war

Name: The boy's book of battle-lyrics : $b a collection of verses illustrating some notable events in the history of the United States of America, from the colonial period to the outbreak of the sectional war
Author: English, Thomas Dunn

English, Thomas Dunn

United States -- History -- Poetry

Not one of us unwounded
        Came from the fearful fray;
      And when the fight was over,
        And scattered round we lay,
    Some sixteen hundred wounds we bore
        As tokens of the day.

      And through that weary darkness,
        And all that dreary night,
      We lay in bitter anguish,
        But never mourned our plight,
    Although we watched with eagerness
        To see the morning light.

      And when the early dawning
        Had marked the sky with red,
      We saw the Moloch incense
        Rise slowly overhead
    From smoking ruins and the heaps
        Of charred and mangled dead.

      I knew the slain were Pagans,
        While we in Christ were free,
      And yet it seemed that moment
        A spirit said to me:
    “Henceforth be doomed while life remains
        This sight of fear to see.”

      And ever since that dawning
        Which chased the night away,
      I wake to see the corses
        That thus before me lay;
    And this is why in cloistered cell
        I wait my latter day.




_BACON’S REBELLION._


  Not an hour’s ride from Williamsburg, the seat of the venerable
  William and Mary College, lie the ruins of Jamestown—part of the
  tower of the old brick church, piles of bricks, and a number
  of tombstones with quaint inscriptions, all half overgrown by
  copse and brambles, being all that remains of the first town of
  Virginia. At the time of its destruction it could not have been a
  considerable place. It had the church, a state-house, and a few
  dwellings built of imported bricks, not more than eighteen in
  number, if so many. The other houses were probably framed, with
  some log-huts. Our accounts of the place are meagre, and derived
  from different sources.

  [Illustration: JAMESTOWN AS IT IS.]

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The boy's book of battle-lyrics : $b a collection of verses illustrating some notable events in the history of the United States of America, from the colonial period to the outbreak of the sectional war

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