Show eNG WAR MOST til or 1 IOSE WHO PENNED I Aia GONE nUT BUT TilE 3 or o oI I fow OF ThE mE VEST R j 1 AMONG ANONG DEMARE STILL IN cg t One OM man mil n with a tone nui It it itCan ur uran Can an RO lO forth and conquer r n crown And three Ith a It new rone iong ontI measure meR sure cnn nil nfl trample n a kingdom om down Irish 05 huh HY v no doubt had In mind when lie ho wrote thos lino some fome om ot of the tIt great hymns imn mM which haVe hAe Inspired In artnie to heroic achievements Every Eer nation nion has hM Its war nr AOnA but the United Slates Is In pc fortunate In It having several war lyrics which mako make for tor Surely the tho poet who helps help to toh h nl Um wounds of ot war wal Is entitled to a place ot or honor along with Ith the riner er whose who e thrilling words urge men to carnage By Dr content of or north and south Muth one ne American poem occupies pre premier mier place pin co In the roll role ro of ot peacemaker tt Jt Is i Tin Th Rlue lue and tho Gray Cray fa tn familiar to o most mo t Americans This was wa written by n a northerner hut but the lofty lony end and tender ten er sentiment IB Is I accepted by ht bynorth bynorth north south alike The Blue and the Is the thc one great Memorial 1 day ria poem In our literature V There Is II 1 another poem poin by br b a south which 0 express In Its It con concluding stanzas a sentiment which Is III and M not nol merely sectional Th The High BICh Tide Thle at al Gettysburg GettY a 1 Will war ballad written many years eara after the event with which It deals I a 11 gives Ives lilting jilting lon to the th present CerlIn of ot o the tte nuth ns os n II part of ot tl lIat American republic Our 1 literature Is III rich In I poems Inspired by tv b tilo civil war ar both during end and since that vast conflict Two which may bo hf railed real war Will I hymns h they th w were suns lunG tin by h the on the march and by b the thc pa j 4 people peole al nt home honl one written by I b ba j 1 a southern mini and tho other by I a 1 northern woman head the thc list Hat of lyric thrillers using that Hint word In Its it most moM dignified ente Maryland land My M Mar Mury land Th Ittle Hymn of oC the I Republic are tho two great war songs sons j ot of the sixties As AH no ni other lyrics sur surpass ur pass the tim two first mentioned which were wele written writt after the war var so no others surpass or equal these two splendid hl songs sonta which the one south couth I ern frn m find ond the other northern Inspired Iho tho soldiers to heroic leeds deeds from the early inya R of oC 1861 to Ills tha close Iose of the thel b l p pIt I It In hi a n remarkable fact that the th au IU authors authors thors of pC these the o four tour most widely popular lar IBI and most must generally accepted civil I war poems are nt It the present writing Mill living Tho The authors and their J poems are aro Francis Miles Mills Finch The and the Gray GIa Will III H It Thompson Thomp on r 5 74 R I t A Ti fp n Z which The Blue this r y w s written The High Tide at 0 t Gettysburg James JameA Ryder H der Randall Maryland 1 My II iy Mary Maryland Milt Maryland land and Mr Mrs Ir Julia Ward Howe How The Battle Battlo Hymn of ot tho 1130 Republic Re Of this thia Illustrious quartet Mrs Howe Is the oldest being b while Mr Ir Ih t I the youngest not yet sixty Nevertheless Mr lr Thompson on was the only one who ho was a soldier during durin the therlie war wal warThe The nine and the Gray was wal written In the of at 1867 1861 and was wall first pub d In the tho Atlantic Monthly In S Sep September p of that year ear This fhle Is h i then the fortieth anniversary of that most popular tar lar Memorial day dRY poem for tor It was Will un tn Incident or of decoration lay day In the tho south which Inspired In It Mr Ir Finch was VaR forty years sears of oC age ae at the tho time HIM HIli eightieth th birthday will be he June 9 He lIe has boa always lived In III Ithaca N y V where he was born Though he has written much verne vers this his Is said sal to b be his hl only published poem After Ater his bin graduation from Yale Yal he ito settled In his lii home town for tal or the th practice of oC the law lie He served for or many years on the bench of ot the Iho c court Jurt of oC appeals appeal of ot New No York and has hal been roell dean clean of oC the law In school at ot Corroll university and ind professor of ot the history and nud evolution of PC law lawA In InA lawA W A telegraphic r dispatch In the news newspapers newspapers papers early In told of oC th wo women women 0 men of Columbus Miss 11 placing flowers upon Ullon thC graves of both Federal and Confederate dead In the local cemetery This touching Incident caused Mr Finch to write his famous poem with Its beautiful sentiment In the concluding ing Ian a So No more thin Ihn Ih war wr ar cry sever ier Or 0 J tile th rIvers river be red r thy They banish our anger forever When hn they the laurel th Knives craves u of at our oural dead al alThe I The High h Tide at Rt Gettysburg wan written many man years car l after alter Hie he I h Will Mr Thompson was WIlS born at fit Calhoun O h March 10 ISIS and wm we therefore only thirteen years of ago age 8 when tho hi war be bl began gall gail As soon spon as IS he hi rould ouId get Into tto the tho service he be h enlisted with the Fourth Georgia Geor la Infantry Infant I iy and Willi In i th the campaigns of ol the Wilderness Spottsyl nA Court House Cold Harbor Harbot and Petersburg Side SIle by ij b hide Ide Id with him fought ht his brother bruther the tho lat late Maurice MaVrIce Thompson who ho attained fame us Uc a 11 novelist poem by 1 Will Thompson IC lees F widely widel known tItan than his but bill a model of or lyrical al mu tic nod tender sentiment was WIlS address addee addressed R ed cd to 10 lila Ills hi brother when both beth had turned the middle life It II Is III called railed Together Against the Stream The High Tide Tl poem Picketts Picket ts famous charge at Gettysburg Its ts lines haw have the dash and sweep I of a n division advancing against the enemy In a i fierce assault It reaches teaches tho thu high mark the high tide of lyric thrill Xv T I n nt ot the th brief f command eon of or ort Le LeM M t II 1 I out nut that matchless s Infantry With leading grandly grandy rand down dean downTo deanTo To oro rush the th roaring crown Of tho those dread 1 heights of or o destiny dlIn Far heard above aboc the angry guns Kilns I A err cry across Hi the tumult curls i in i fr y yf f t 7 FI f C I Ir p r 1 krs p e I I r I 1 I I Wj I Ij j M MP P rs e I 1 ci U 4 J ohn G I L I The Th voice olee that rang through woods Anil Ani An The Titi rh fierce Herce nI south cheering on h ier r soar non on Then after aUer n II doran doren stanzas parked poJ tI with such ringing regiments of or poesy poS this titI southern soldier poet concludes Fold Foli up the Smelt Smell the 1111 guns Iov lo rule Her 1101 gentler purpose runs run A mighty mother turns In tars The Tit pages pager of her Iter buttle ye y n 1 all her Ier fallen sons cons Mr 11 Thompson like hire Mr 11 Finch Is ir I n lawyer Since 1889 he ite has practiced his profession prot glon nt ut Seattle Wash lIph Mr Ir Kip Rip Kipling Kipling ling not long Ions Ion ago ego said that there are In English 1 verse vorse but live 1110 lines linns of sheer magic magl If Jr he Ite Is II looking for Cor sheer thrill Instead of ot magic lot him read real the th ninety lines of It In The High Tide at I Gettysburg The poem has Just nine ninety nInety ty t lines and they Ih y are arc nil alt sheer thrill 11 James Ryder Randall Hald was all only ly tWO when he be wrote rote Maryland My II Maryland MII land He lie n a I professor In a n Creole college in rural ruml Louisiana when he rend rud In a 11 newspaper of oC the blood bood bloodshed sIted shed in III Baltimore his native city In Incident to the tho passing through of tim tho Jj I I I T I Ward Howe Sixth Massachusetts Ma regiment early ally In 1561 That was tho the bloodshed hed In tIm tho civil war var loung pa Ia patriotic patriotic Indignation against what he hr re rc regarded e as tin on unwarranted Invasion ot or his native mite was no so strong that he could coult COIl hi not pot sleep lerp that night He lie arose antI and paced tho the floor his Ills thoughts fall Inis ln Into meter melr r Ho Ito e lit III 1114 hi candle pat at down clown to lila his desk sk and in half an hour It 18 Is said Iti wrote the poem as aK It IL tanas tand today toda except for COl one on change chanse which he hI made long afterward ot ut the of ot Oliver Wendell endell Holmes who declared that It WH WIS tile the best poem produced on either cither side Ida tid during durin the war The rite ringing stanzas were r d through north and Ind south Even EvenIn In Europe they the J I highly popular Inc lar A Russian nu lari ioMe k the tong fOng which was sot set to 10 tousle music In the presence of or a It friend of ot the author In London that she he had bad learned It at Lt her hel home In far tar Siberia Though haying to do with a state the th poem ex expressed expressed pressed a n universal sentiment sent nt The despots heel Is on thy shore lerf Maryland Ills torch lorch la is nt thy temple templo door Maryland I I Daniel II Avenue Avene e the Ih patriotic gore gar That fl n decked l thi th streets ot of O l And Md be the tho th battle queen ot of yore ole Maryland my In Maryland Mitt And the tho Hark to aji an exiled sons ap appeal appeal appeal peal my nty Maryland became becam n a war warf f song ong throughout tho Iho south sung un by h the tho of ot a B dot do doren n states tea who fought under ier tho the stars and bars Mr MI Randall II vho was nan of oC frail Crall constitution did not enter the Ule service but continued to write songs which stirred the soldiers 1101 to heroism Of Ot his other othar war Will songs may ma be mentioned Theres Lila Life In the theOld theOld Old Lund Land Yet Yel Stonewall Jackson The Battle Buttle Cry Cr of ot the th South and At Arlington which latter poem It Is IA said the th author considers his 1113 heel heAt During the th war Mr Itan all became a n news pap r correspondent corr and afterward for COI many years earll he lie was wa editor of or newspapers pers vera at lIt and In the Ihl south Ho lie has always ways remained In his beloved Southland n Mrs Julia Ward WI Howe 1100 whoso whose flat th Hymn ot of the tho Republic probably will ril live llva longer than any of IC the itt othel other lyrics In this famous because It II In III for tor all cli the republic and 1301 for all nit time Is III a 11 native of oC New ew York city Sits Sho was vas born barn Muy May 27 n 1819 IU 1 Most of at her mature life has haa been spent In Boston floston and ant It Its 1111 vicinity Her Hor husband the cele celebrated Dr Di Samuel Gridley Howe spent silent his hlf mature maturo life liCe In efforts to Improve the condition o ot tito tho blind In hIs hili youth like Lord Lor Byron ho he went vent to Greece Orenee and aided tits the patriots l In their efforts to throw off oft the Turkish yoke oke Mrs In Howe through her husband be bl become come Interested In many reforms and Intellectual She Sho hint lute published F voral reveral volumes both Joth In prose and verso versa and her work as an advocate ot or woman suffrage is widely known Her Uel most famous work wont wor however la is laThe The Hymn of ot tho the Republic It U Is III Interesting to lo note noie that the author auditor of his this I stirring battle battlo hymn Is also an earnest advocate of universal peace Tits The hymn wag waa nil written In Boston about tho same lamo time that young ounG James Ryder yu f I n Di Land i I Randall won WI writing My I Maryland In r his hili Louisiana Loul lodgings 1011 Curiously also ul o I like Randall Mrs Mr Howe arose from her I bail beil to write It the tho night after the In III Inspiration c une to 10 her bet With her hus hits husband hand band and others she alto he had hlll Just returned from a vIsit to 10 Washington where she sho h d heard the singing John Browns fIod She sung It herself and tind the chorus 10 such an I in prep Finn elon upon tipon her mind that she ehe arose arOB from hor liar led bed I that night and nd wrote write the famous hAW buttle hymn h mn with Its John JohnBrown Drown Brown retrain refrain Tho Th closing stanza as aswell well as ae the tho other four for tor that matter maller Is I an nn Inspiration In toward town Id liberty for nil alt men find nil In the th beauty l of the th lilies Christ ChrIt t VIO aes born across nero the see nek I With a cl glory ry In tn hIs bis iI bosom hosom om that transfigures tires ures you And ata me meAn m mAn meAn An he ill died l to tu t make m men n holy let I t u 11 its dl di to 10 tomake mall make men m n fr tre God Cod U Is I marching on onMan V Many Man other noble nobl writ Will lyric and ant bal bat ballads lads wot written but none ot of them has litta tho tim pru ent strong appeal ot of either 1 of th four tour Barbara Frietchie lies has been be n rather rath r overworked I while the Ride of Buchanan Rend Head has hus suffered similarly While noble ballads each ot or these the fIrst is Just a rt little too teril i iother other oth r somewhat too 10 heresy hOIe for tor human natures dally daily dall food A A poem PO which us ves widely popular tinting the tho war var because of Its ItIC pathos 1 li is 1 All Quiet Along the tite by Lynn Dears Beers who wits was wa born at Goshen loshen N y 1 In 1827 1 27 arid and died 1111 at Orange Oran N J 1 In ISiS 1879 This piece co won ws M published Sept 30 In Harpers Weekly 1111 Henry Henn who J died In his year In at lit Columbia 8 S C was Will one of nr the lh singers Iners His most noted not d wj tor r poem Is I entitled Sprint Spring rind and It Ih Ii I f 1 l 1 poetry not spring poetry I 1 Ryan rIto Abram J 1 fl au an anThe auThe auThe The Sword of Robert Hobert Lee Lye arid and war was a popular POSt poet Ioe ut tit Inc tiiu south Nor must Pan Dan Emmett the theauthor author ot of Dixie b be forgotten fc Francis 0 a n Georgia physician cian elan who died dl 1 In 1871 wrote In verse cree the tho story st ste ry of ot Giffen n of oC Tenno see f a u boy soldier which Is said to tc have hate been tc n pronounced by 1 Maurice Thompson Iho the finest lyric evoked eok d by br bythe bythe the civil chU war But mit that Iliad was af before brother wrote The High Tide at Gettysburg Gelt S SROBERT ROBERT DONNELL |