. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . lonelySince the fisher went away,And the sun-burnt child it hath not smild This many and many a the schools of mackrel come unscaredTo the shoals of the inner bay. For the fisherman said one spring-time : Dear wife, I have set my sailThese twenty years to the northern meres, The icebergs, the mist and gale,And my country hath paid the shot, good wife, However I chanced to fail. * Yes, paid for my sailors knowledge. A
. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . lonelySince the fisher went away,And the sun-burnt child it hath not smild This many and many a the schools of mackrel come unscaredTo the shoals of the inner bay. For the fisherman said one spring-time : Dear wife, I have set my sailThese twenty years to the northern meres, The icebergs, the mist and gale,And my country hath paid the shot, good wife, However I chanced to fail. * Yes, paid for my sailors knowledge. And the skill of my ready hand ;And the blue on my arm, as a sacred charm, Is the flag that guards the time has come to pay that debt, Tho my life it should demand. 193 194 ^be Xoi^al ^isbcv So bravely the loyal fisher Sailed for the southern sea,Never a hook nor a bait he took For the deadly fishery ;But the staunchest man at the straining rope In the northerner was he. On the bloody deck of the Hartford At last the fisher lay,The azure charm pricked on his arm Was striped with red that day ;And his debt of twenty years w^as paid With a life in Mobile SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SEA. By SAMUEIy H. M. BYKRS. [General Sherman, in a recent conversation with theeditor of this collection, declared that it was this poemwith its phrase, march to the sea, that threw a glamourof romance over the campaign which it celebrates. SaidGeneral Sherman: The thing was nothing more orless than a change of base, an operation perfectly familiarto every military man, but a poet got hold of it, gaveit the captivating label, The March to the Sea, andthe unmilitary public made a romance out of it. Itmay be remarked that the Generals modesty overlooksthe important fact that the romance lay really in hisown deed of derring-do ; the poet merely recorded it, orat most interpreted it to the popular intelligence. Theglory of the great campaign was Shermans and hisarmys; the joy of celebrating it was
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