War Poetry of the South by Various
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Heralding Faith to view;
Type of unblemished honor; Symbol of all that's true! _Then_ what can those waves be singing But an anthem grand, sublime, As they bear for our martyred heroes A wail to the coast of Time? What else as they roll majestic To the far-off shadowy shore, To join the Eternal chorus When Time shall be no more! Old Moultrie. By Catherine Gendron Poyas, of Charleston. All lovers of poetry will know in whose liquid gold I have dipped my brush to illumine the picture. The splendor falls on bannered walls Of ancient Moultrie, great in story; And flushes now, his scar-seamed brow, |
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