Scribner's magazine . -^ BY THE SEA By Anne Mayo Maclean The hoary sea, that throuprh a thousand years, To all the burdens of the hurrying streams Doth bare lier heart, ofttimes in troubled dreams Murmurs her secrets to unheeding ears. Such weight of knowledge beyond price her breast Doth hide, of sins undreamed and voiceless woe— A childs glad laugh beside the rivers flow. And all the love at countless brooks confessed. AVho waits alone beside her, as oppressed She stirs from some deep calm, and to and fro Ceaselessly tosses in her long unrest— Who waits with heart intent perchance shall be L
Scribner's magazine . -^ BY THE SEA By Anne Mayo Maclean The hoary sea, that throuprh a thousand years, To all the burdens of the hurrying streams Doth bare lier heart, ofttimes in troubled dreams Murmurs her secrets to unheeding ears. Such weight of knowledge beyond price her breast Doth hide, of sins undreamed and voiceless woe— A childs glad laugh beside the rivers flow. And all the love at countless brooks confessed. AVho waits alone beside her, as oppressed She stirs from some deep calm, and to and fro Ceaselessly tosses in her long unrest— Who waits with heart intent perchance shall be Listener to things no mortal heart hath guessed, And steal her secret from the whisj^ering I I .. II 91 ^ Wm ,S THE GETTYSBURG WEEK . </)n(?niu By Philip Schaff, [The following reminiscences aretaken from a special journal kept byDr. Schaff during several weeks in July,1863, and are given in the exact formin which he wrote them. Dr. Schaffwas at that time a professor in theTheological Seminary at Mercersburg,a tow^n of twelve hundred inhabitants,in Southern Pennsylvania and within afew miles of the Maryland line. Itwitnessed several Confederate raids andLees invasion. The battlefields of An-tietam and Gettysburg are forty milesaway. Within three miles is Stony Bat-tery, a wild gorge in the mountains,where President James Buchanan wasborn. Dr. Schaff was prominently iden-tified with the Union cause, and narrow-ly escaped being taken prisoner by theConfederates for the public speeches hehad made in its support.—D. S. S.] Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, June 26,1863.—This is the third time withinless than a year that the horrible civilwar, now raging through this great
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