LINESSUGGESTED BY A LETTER FROM THE THIRTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT.
THE tidings sweet just reaching me,
That health and joy attend,
I'd write that all who love may see,
Though discord in my theme may be;
Yet from my heart how gratefully,
Shall prayer and song ascend.
That health and joy attend,
I'd write that all who love may see,
Though discord in my theme may be;
Yet from my heart how gratefully,
Shall prayer and song ascend.
The Alleghanies, heaven-spanned,
Clothed in their vernal dress,
They've crossed, while showers and breezes fanned;
The noble Thirty-fifth there stand,
A tried, a loyal band,
Unflinching to aggress.
Clothed in their vernal dress,
They've crossed, while showers and breezes fanned;
The noble Thirty-fifth there stand,
A tried, a loyal band,
Unflinching to aggress.
To-night by fair Kentucky's streams,
One 'midst this loyal band,
Near where the traitor's camp-fire beams,
My youthful soldier's rifle gleams;
'Tis this that colors all my dreams,
Unnerves my heart and hand.
One 'midst this loyal band,
Near where the traitor's camp-fire beams,
My youthful soldier's rifle gleams;
'Tis this that colors all my dreams,
Unnerves my heart and hand.
