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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 354 (search)
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Is'bel Steele. by Mary E. Nealy. ”See, Auntie!
the camp-fires gleaming Like fire-flies on the hill; Do not the red lights streaming Send through your heart a thrill-- A thrill of the days of danger, When you, dear Aunt, were young-- When out in the West a stranger, Your heart with grief was wrung-- When the ties of sister and brother, Of husband and of wife, Each woman's soul did smother To aid in the fearful strife. ”Oh!
tell, Aunt Is'bel, tell us Of those dangerous days of yore; It wlt when he was sent. Yet, oh!
may the God of battles Save every one the pain I felt, and sometimes feel even now, For he came not back again! He was slain by the savage red men, And scalped — all his dark-brown curls! That I am still lone Is'bel Steele, Do you wonder now, sweet girls? ”Ay, the girls of those times had courage, And I think they have it now! Though they do not need to toil so hard, They can soothe the fevered brow. And the men — are as keen for fighting Could they find the fig