Of the future for you and for me,”—

My Prison Drear: By Lieut. D. T. Walker, of Mississippi. (Sunny.)

“Alas, how slow the moments go,

As fettered on this friendless Isle;”—

My Soldier: Monday night, April 14th, 1862. (S. L. M., Ed. Table, April, ’62)

“Is my darling sadly dreaming,

On his lonely watch tonight,”—

My Soldier Boy: By T. E. Grayson, near Benton, Mississippi, October 1861. (Im.)

“I am dreaming ever dreaming of a silver sanded shore,

Where the blue waves softly murmur as they roll forevermore”—