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TO-DAY.

A servant, also, to obey

And lead you where you point the way.

Who wrestle with him hour by hour,
He leads to Fame and Wealth and Power;

For, who win his treasured stores,
Must first assail his realm by Force.

Small note he takes of varying creeds,
His record lies in words and deeds;

Actions that grow to fair renown,
These are the jewels in his crown.

Discourse is vain; his lips are dumb,
No oracles from him can come;

To all the questioner says or thinks,
He is as subtle as the Sphinx.

In him all issues centred are,
His realm extends to Sun and Star,

And on his car, which will not wait,
He bears the Keys of Time and Fate.

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FOLLOWING THE DRUM.

Up, Man! and labor while you may ;
Behold your King, or Slave, TO-DAY.

FOLLOWING THE DRUM.

KISS me good-by, my dear!" he said;

"When I come back we will be wed."

Crying, she kissed him, "Good-by, Ned!"
And the soldier followed the drum,
The drum,

The echoing, echoing drum.

Rataplan! Rataplan! Rataplan !
Follow me, follow me, each true man;
Living or dying, strike while you can!
And the soldiers followed the drum,
The drum,

The echoing, echoing drum.

Proudly and firmly marched off the men ;
Who had a sweetheart thought of her then;
Tears were coming, but brave lips smiled when
The soldiers followed the drum,

The drum,

The echoing, echoing drum.

THE UNION.

One with a woman's curl next to his heart,
He felt her last smile pierce like a dart;

[blocks in formation]

She thought "death in life" comes when we part
From soldiers following the drum,
The drum,

The echoing, echoing drum.

THE UNION!

A NATIONAL SONG.

BY FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER.

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"

I.

WEBSTER.

THE Union! The Union! The hope of the

free!

Howsoe'er we may differ, in this we agree : Our glorious banner no traitor shall mar, By effacing a stripe, or destroying a star! Division! No, never! The Union forever! And cursed be the hand that our country would sever!

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THE UNION.

II.

The Union! The Union! 'T was purchased with blood!

Side by side, to secure it, our forefathers stood: From the North to the South, through the length of the land,

Ran the war-cry which summoned that patriot

band!

Division! No, never! The Union forever! And cursed be the hand that our country would sever!

III

The Union! The Union! At Lexington first, Through the clouds of oppression, its radiance

burst:

But at Yorktown rolled back the last vapory crest, And, a bright constellation, it blazed in the

West!

Division! No, never! The Union forever! And cursed be the hand that our country would sever!

IV.

The Union The Union! Its heavenly light Cheers the hearts of the nations who grope in the night,

THE BATTLE.

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And, athwart the wide ocean, falls, gilding the

tides,

A path to the country where Freedom abides! Division! No, never! The Union forever!

And cursed be the hand that our country would sever!

V.

The Union! The Union! In God we repose! We confide in the power that vanquished our

foes!

The God of our fathers, - Oh, still may He be
The strength of the Union, the hope of the free!
Division! No, never! The Union forever!
And cursed be the hand that our country would
sever!

THE BATTLE.

THE battle

BY RUTH N. CROMWELL.

HE battle was over, we had won it, they said;

I heard the brief tale of the heroes who led,— Of the hosts that went in, of the few that came out, Of the charge for the Union, the carnage and

rout.

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