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Corporal Alston's discourse. Swift shooting down that Southern river's bends, Like logs in freshet, swept our steamers on; Their midships lumbered up with useless bales, Old household stuffs and huddled clothes in rags, And sombre groups of sleeping negroes,--waifs Just taken on board from dug-outs, timbers, rafts, Or off the rice-fields that spread either side, One vast green chequer-work of dyke and pool. Here the swart mothers and their babies dozed 'Mid all their earthly goods; and here m to the forward deck, Saw only squads of dusky soldiers, couched Like some vast caravan, beneath the moon, A breathing mass of black and ivory; And o'er them all a high, shrill voice pealed forth The burden of exhortation. I knew it well, Old Adam Alston's voice; and thus it spoke: ”When I heard de bombshell screamina troo de woods Like de Judgment Day, I said widin myself, ‘Suppose my head been took clean off dis night, Dey couldn't put my soul in de torments. No, No! not perceps I hab fo