More gentle now than in his cradled sleep

Some Alexander—take up arms, spread wide,

Leap high and cruel in a fierce campaign

Along their valleys. See this trellised bridge,

New-built, and firmer than the one from which

We fellows dropped the line:—that went away

Two years ago, like straw before a gale,

In the great April flood, of which you heard,

When George and Lucy Dorrance lost their lives.

I saw them perish. You remember her,—