Baby May, home poems and ballads, 第 888 号

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62 ページ - The widow's cry that rose on high her only son to spare ! 0 bless'd be God that turned from him the sword and shot away ! And what to his old mother did my darling bid you say ?" " Mother, he saved his colonel's life, and bravely it was done ; In the despatch they told it all, and named and praised your son. A medal and a pension's his — good luck to him, I say ! And he has not a comrade but will wish him well to-day.
62 ページ - I've just come from the war; And well I know the 90th, and gallant lads they are ; From colonel down to rank and file, I know my comrades well, And news I've brought for you, mother, your Robert bade me tell.
20 ページ - ... mine grow cold ; Your aged eyes will see in mine all they've still shown to you, And mine in yours all they have seen since this old ring was new. And O, when death shall come at last to bid me to my rest, May I die looking in those eyes, and resting on that breast ! O may my parting gaze be...
18 ページ - Yes" made you my loving wife ! Your heart will say the same, I know ; that day 's as dear to you, — That day that made me yours, dear wife, when this old ring was new. How well do I remember now your young sweet face that day ! How fair you were, how dear you were, my tongue could hardly say ; Nor how I doated on...
63 ページ - He's bronzed, and tann'd, and bearded, and you'd hardly know him, dame, We've made your boy into a man, but still his heart's the same: For often, dame, his talk's of you, and always to one tune, But there, his ship is nearly home, and he'll be with you soon.

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