... When youthful hearts like music beat I To rhythm of their own delight, And every dawning day they greet I With radiant trust in all that's blight, The Chimes which ...

... UNDER the curtain of the night. The last Bivouac of all. An oft-repeated scene, During the woeful months so late gone past, To be repeated oft again, I ween, During the woeful ...

... That cruel day at St. Privat, When Death mowed down rank after rank, Our bravest blenched before the fire, For just a moment by the bank Of a poor stream that reddening ran, And halte ...

... France, 1870 'TWAS a great shot One flash of light, and next Shadow and calm supreme. Life's myst'ry bare, Cold hearth and unfilled field, small needs that vexed Sunset on earth. But ...

... Dreaming last night I stood, I know not where Watching a carrier dove, which through the air Over my head pursued its steady way And speculated as to what might be The natur ...

... NATALIE'S CHRISTMAS fREE, 1S70 [The subjoined lines are illustrative of a touching incident of the war. An officer of the 57th Prussian Regiment was shot in the head at Metz in October, and was sent h ...

... Nestle beneath God's wing in sleep, my dove Or let some angel do thy mother's part Thou could'st not rest with warring fear and love, Plusband and Country, struggling in my heart. There' ...

... To weary Teuton and to hopeless Gaul Welcome alike, descend Brief with thy epilogue the curtain's fall The ghastly drama's end The conquerors filing off mid clash and roll Of arms an ...

... HUSHED is the strife at Heaven's high command; Behold at last the unholy conflict cease. Like a strong angel the long prayed-for Peace Shelters 'neath outspread wings the weary land, Bearing Hop ...

... Thf.y flung the banners out to shine On Windsor's immemorial towers, And gathered to Saint George's shrine All spring-tide blazonry of flowers. The organ's diapason roll'd In thunder d ...

... EPITHALAMIUM For H.R.H. the Princess Louise March 21, 1871 I. GRANDER than thunder-peal, When parting clouds reveal The sudden lightning on the summer sky; Grander than wildest roar Of billows on the ...

... I. Come, every flower that in moonlight trembles When Titania's Court assembles Come, violets white and azure and rose Growing in nooks that the poet knows Come, delicate-scented daff ...