Amanda Theodosia Jones Poems

PRELUDE

I
If earth's lost youth thou hast revived in dreams,
Hast set swift sails and moored in ports of yore,
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June 27, 1862.

INSCRIBED TO THE GALLANT PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES.
The battle's last, long thunders rolled;
The witness-cloud to heaven was swept;
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I
We two waited on the deck-
All around us rolled the sea;
Helpless, on our reeling wreck,
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At last the dread cloud that hung over the gorges
Has sailed to the west and extinguished the sun;
At last, mid the mountains, war's thunderbolt-forges
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Awake, little daughter, awake!
The sad moon is weaving her shroud;
The pale, drooping lily-bells quake;
The river is sobbing aloud.
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