. Idyls of battle and poems of the rebellion. AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF A GRAKD MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITART FAIR. [Read before the General Assembly of the loyal men andwomen of St. Louis, convened at the Mercantile Library,February 1, 1864, by Professor Amasa McCoy, of Washing-ton, D. C] TTTHERE the Mississippis darkly troubledwatersRoll their tawny waves along;And the South lands ever warm, but wilfuldaughtersChange to sighing all their song;Far away from any help or friendly sooth-ing,They are dying, day by day, — AN APPEAL. 77 Without love or anj tender hand for smooth-ingThe last frown of deat
. Idyls of battle and poems of the rebellion. AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF A GRAKD MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITART FAIR. [Read before the General Assembly of the loyal men andwomen of St. Louis, convened at the Mercantile Library,February 1, 1864, by Professor Amasa McCoy, of Washing-ton, D. C] TTTHERE the Mississippis darkly troubledwatersRoll their tawny waves along;And the South lands ever warm, but wilfuldaughtersChange to sighing all their song;Far away from any help or friendly sooth-ing,They are dying, day by day, — AN APPEAL. 77 Without love or anj tender hand for smooth-ingThe last frown of death away ! Who are dying? Who are falling m theirplaces,Stabbed by pestilence and wane;With a firm resolve upon their pallid faces, Which Death can never daunt ?Who are tracking from the West land to theSouth landA free passage in then blood ?Who have never turned their failing footsteps. homeward,Nor faltered where they stood ? Loyal men, who make the sinews of thisnation,Who keep alive the throbbings of itsheart!Royal heroes! without thoug
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