. Poems . A Fever Dream 26 Major Bassetts Chase 29 The Ten Brothers 31 Echo River 33 The Angel of the Hospital 36 The Two Singers 39 Battle of Mill Spring 41 The Greek Slave 42 Ode to Impudence 44 My Birthday . 48 Battle of Nashville 49 Blonde and Brunette 53 Gray and Blue 54 Bishop Dudleys Dirge 55 The Dress Circle 56 v INDEX. PAGK In Memoriam 60 The Sorrows of Hinda and Kleinfelter 61 Dr. John A. Broaddus 65 To Leonora . 67 At His Post 69 Reconciliation 71 Ophelia 74 Death of the Seasons 76 New Year Ode, 1861 78 Monody 83 Washingtons Birthday Ode 86 To April 87 Ode on the Death of Leo XIII 8
. Poems . A Fever Dream 26 Major Bassetts Chase 29 The Ten Brothers 31 Echo River 33 The Angel of the Hospital 36 The Two Singers 39 Battle of Mill Spring 41 The Greek Slave 42 Ode to Impudence 44 My Birthday . 48 Battle of Nashville 49 Blonde and Brunette 53 Gray and Blue 54 Bishop Dudleys Dirge 55 The Dress Circle 56 v INDEX. PAGK In Memoriam 60 The Sorrows of Hinda and Kleinfelter 61 Dr. John A. Broaddus 65 To Leonora . 67 At His Post 69 Reconciliation 71 Ophelia 74 Death of the Seasons 76 New Year Ode, 1861 78 Monody 83 Washingtons Birthday Ode 86 To April 87 Ode on the Death of Leo XIII 88 Chiabreras Epitaph 90 Elegy 91 To the Law and Order League 92 With Thy Shield, or Upon It 94 Confirmation at St. Andrews 96 The Christmas Flower 98 To the Soldiers of General Dumonts Command 99 The Two Gordons 100 The Westfield Home 105 The Harp in the Air; or a Night with Gerardi in Seelbachs Roof-garden 107 Dedication Hymn 109 L)^ng in State at Princeton no In the Morning 113 POEMS POEMS S. C. MERCER. THE TWO KENTUCKIANS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN—Fourteenth President of the United States; born inHardin County, Ky., February 12, iScg; assassinated in Fords Theater, April 16, 1865. JEFFERSON DAVIS-First and last President of the Southern Confederacy;born in Christian County, Ky., June 3, 1808; died in New Orleans, December 6, 1889. The sky of the Southland with grief is oercast;Bitter tears down the cheeks of the brave trickle fast;The moss-streamered oaks of Beauvoir bow their head—Their Master is fallen, their Chieftain is , soldier, who liest outstretched on thy bier:Does the warwhoop of Black Hawk not startle thy eari^Seest thou not the long Mexican lancers arrayAt dark Buena Vista rush fierce to the fray? Hapless Mexican Cavalry! great was your scathAs you fearlessly charged down that Angle of manes of the chargers like meteors rainbows far-flashing the gay pennons gleamed; THE TWO KENTUCKIANS. Like lightning from Heaven Davis brandished his s
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