Songs of the Sand Hills Author:Joseph Ross Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: What account she must give On that day when all live, Or are called from her depths to come forth; What sight must that be For her dead all to see, When... more » she gives them all up at one birth. With what sins and what charge, By the wholesale at large, She must answer for all of the waste, And destruction and life From all time in her strife, By her rages of passion and haste. GOOD-BYE TO '65. year has gone, as all must go JL Who labor and contrive; With joys and woes it's past and gone, Good-bye, old '65. You've many seen put in their grave, Yet many's left alive, And many breathed first breath of life, In year old '65. You've seen great warriors yield to right, With bands that did connive, To part the bands of liberty, In you, old '65. You've seen the din of battle cease, A lasting peace arrive, The glorious Union all restored, In you, old '65. You've seen the dawning of the day, When liberty arrive, And all the races here that's black Made free in '65. But now you've left us to our fate As on this earth we hire, And never more to come again— Good-bye, old 65. WRITTEN ON BECOMING A GRANDFATHER NOW, how can this all be which I hear, As it falls on my listening ear, Coming sportive and mild; Asking where is its grandpa and all, And then asking the cherub to call On its grandpa, my child. Is it possible this all can be, That these accents directed to me, For to let baby know How the name it will spread all around) And I'm not reconciled to the sound Of a grandpa—that's so. Still, the name is paternal, and makes Me elated, and often betakes Of those venerable ways, But now how can I think this is me, With a grandchild here placed on my knee, In my palmiest days. True an honor to...« less