[from the Columbus (Ga.) ]
Fast and prayer.
"I appoint Friday, November 15th, a day of general fasting and prayer. ‘"Jefferson Davis,"’
‘ Soldier on the whitened field.
Restling on the burning had shield.
Stanring at each breath,
Least it sound the approach of death,
Watch and pray.
'Mid the did and of battle.
Where death's thickly rattle.
Coincides fall on gory cede,
Cold earth pillows heavest
Left the heart and pray.
Father, by the vacant hearth.
Where paternal joys had birth.
As you cherish absent ones.
By the love you bearly ussens,
Fast and pray.
Noble mothers patriot's pride,
Vainly arriving tears to hide
By the anguish long conceated.
By the love not half revealed.
Fast and pray.
Sister though thy gentle pleading
Stemed to fall on hearts onhealing
Duty triumphed the love's taken,
Prayer and a unbroken,
Fast and pray.
Emely wife thy vizl sleeping
Where thy tender Sleeping
Sailors shaper dimly grarzing
Till the dawn East
Fast and prayer.
Southern offspring patriots all.
Prostrate at your chieftain's call,
Stricken nation's mingled cries
Like one vast petition rise.
Fast and pray.
Humbly, Lord we come to then
Contribe bend the sapphiant knee;
Muteless foes our land invade
F efforts sid:
For this we fast and pray.
This dawning Republic we pray thee to
No fast of invader out soilder press,
The peal of the bugle and cease,
Our infantile benner float outward in peace,
For these we'll fast and pray.
’ Columbus, Nov. 15. 1861.
