. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . THE MOON-FLOWER. THE sun has burned his way across the sky,And sunk in suUry s])lcndor; now the earthLies spent and gray, wrapped in die grateful dusk;Stars tremble into sight, and in the westThe curved moon glows faintly. T is llie Imur!See! Flower on flower the butls unfoUl, untilThe air is illled with odors extjuisiteAnd amorous sighs, and all the verdurous gloomIs starred with silvery disks. Oh, Mower of Dreams : ■Of lovers dreams, where bliss and anguish meet;Dreams of dead joys, and joys that neer ha\e been ;Keenest of all, the joys th
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . THE MOON-FLOWER. THE sun has burned his way across the sky,And sunk in suUry s])lcndor; now the earthLies spent and gray, wrapped in die grateful dusk;Stars tremble into sight, and in the westThe curved moon glows faintly. T is llie Imur!See! Flower on flower the butls unfoUl, untilThe air is illled with odors extjuisiteAnd amorous sighs, and all the verdurous gloomIs starred with silvery disks. Oh, Mower of Dreams : ■Of lovers dreams, where bliss and anguish meet;Dreams of dead joys, and joys that neer ha\e been ;Keenest of all, the joys that neer shall be! Julia Sc/iayei. THE NATIONAL MILLFARV PARI \. (embracing the (;A and CHATTANOOGA ). HE Chickamauga and Chatta-nooga National Military Iark,which is to be dedicated withimposing ceremonies on Sep-tember 19 to 21, is the firstproject of its kind in any of its distinguishing features have beenfollowed upon other fields, but as a whole itlas no ])arallel. The main body of the park embraces thebattle-field of Chickamauga. The legal boun-daries, as authorized by Congress and ratifiedby the States of Georgia and Tennessee, con-cain fifteen square miles, of which eleven havedready been acquired. About 5000 acres ofdie latter, or eight square miles, are forest, andof this 3500 acres have been so cleared of un-derbrush and the smaller timber that carriagesmay be driven through every portion of the the main body of the i)ark, there isnow included a tract — Orchard Knob — of about seven acres and a half, which was at firstthe .strongest i)oint of the Confetlerate linesthrough the center of the i)lain about Chat-tanooga, and, after its capture, Crants
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