. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . one load, and well take no more ! And at his command the long stage plankSlowly rose from the sandy , rending the air with a pitiful sick boy sank to the ground like a stone. How she did it nobody knew,—And nobody knew it less than she,—But right in the face of the wondering crew,Right in the teeth of the angry mate,As the plank came up, she Avalked elate,Bearing the wounded boy somehow,In the burst of
. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . one load, and well take no more ! And at his command the long stage plankSlowly rose from the sandy , rending the air with a pitiful sick boy sank to the ground like a stone. How she did it nobody knew,—And nobody knew it less than she,—But right in the face of the wondering crew,Right in the teeth of the angry mate,As the plank came up, she Avalked elate,Bearing the wounded boy somehow,In the burst of indignant ecstacy,Into the midst of the cheering crew. There ! said she, as she laid him facing the mate with a threatening frown, * You throw him out, and you throw me too. OUR ARMY NURSES. 485 Cheer after cheer went up from the bank ;Cheers from the boats, crew after crew,As the great boat, slowly hauling its plank,Northward into the channel drew ;And happy visions of prairies bright,Happy visions for one of the his hopeful homeward the more than motherly careOf the Dorian matron standing there,—Grandmother of
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