“What shall we say now of our gentle knight,
Or how express the measure of our woe,”—
John Pelham: By James R. Randall. Kelley’s Ford, March 17, 1863. (E. V. M.)
“Just as the spring came laughing through the strife,
With all its gorgeous cheer,”—
Johnny B. Magruder: By a Texian. (Alsb.)
“Come listen to my lay, of a man who came this way,
You may never see a bolder, or a ruder;”—
Johnson’s Island: By Lieutenant E. A. Holmes of Va. (Sunny.)
“Oh, who has not heard of that isle in Lake Erie,