MY WARRIOR BOY.

Metropolitan Record. Music by A. E. A. Muse.

[The music of this song can be procured of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., owners of the copyright.]

Thou hast gone forth, my darling one,
To battle with the brave,
To strike in Freedom’s sacred cause,
Or win an early grave;
With vet’rans grim, and stalwart men,
Thy pathway lieth now,
Though fifteen summers scarce have shed
Their blossoms on thy brow.

My babe in years, my warrior boy!
O! if a mother’s tears
Could call thee back to be my joy,
And still these anxious fears,
I’d dash the traitor drops away,
That would unnerve thy hand,
Now raised to strike in Freedom’s cause,
For thy dear native land.
“Come back to me my darling son,
And light my life again.”
God speed thee on thy course, my boy,
Where’er thy pathway lie,
And guard thee when the leaden hail,
Shall thick around thee fly;
But when our sacred cause is won,
And peace again shall reign,
Come back to me, my darling son,
And light my life again.