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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee to the rear. (search)
Lee to the rear. by John R. Thompson. Dawn of a pleasant morning in May Broke through the Wilderness, cool and gray, While perched in the tallest tree-tops, the birds Were carrolling Mendelsshon's “Songs without words,” Far from the haunts of men remote, The brook brawled on with a liquid note, And Nature, all tranquil and lovely, wore The smile of the spring, as in Eden of yore. Little by little, as daylight increased, And deepened the roseate flush in the East; Little by little did morn reveal Two long, glittering lines of steel, Where two hundred thousand bayonets gleam, Tipped with the light of the earliest beam, And the faces are sullen and grim to see, In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee. All of a sudden, ere rose the sun, Pealed on the silence the opening gun-- A little white puff of smoke there came, And anon the valley was wreathed in flame. Down on the left of the Rebel lines, Where a breastwork stands in a copse of pines, Before the Rebels their ranks can form, The