When out of its portals, amid a bright halo,
Which lumin'd the sky East, West, South and North,
The Genius of Freedom then spread his fair pinions,
And 'mid great rejoicing, to light issued forth-

To carry glad tidings to thousands now waiting
To hear that the reign of Treason is o'er,

When with prayer and thanksgiving the nation united
Shall hail the old Union as it was of yore.

Oh, Sumter, tho' fallen, with thy glory faded-
Tho' shatter'd thy gates, and in ruins thy wall,
Twere better to be thus the tombstone of Treason
Than a monument damn'd of Liberty's fall!

J. HENRY HAYWARD.

END OF THE FIRST TWO YEARS.

CONTENTS.

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Arsenal, The

All's Well,

A Nation's Prayer,

After the Battle,

Am I Forgotten?

A Son in the War,

American Traitors' Curse, The

Attack and Repulse, The

A Battle Hymn for Midsummer,

Arm for the Fight!

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75

86

104

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121

162

A Mother's Offering to Her Country,

171

211

A Battle Dirge,

321

A Brother's Sad Farewell,

323

My-country-I Weep for Thee,

92

My Minnie Rifle,

Mother, I've Come Home to Die,

My Country-women,

My Grandfather's Sword,

Monarch of the West, The

Monitor and Merrimac, The

Mothers of 1862, The

My Kinsman's Fall,

Man of the Iron Will, The

My Captain Bend Low,

My Country,

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Music on the Field of Battle,

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