Make muscle and sinew nerve force feel;”—

Nil Desperandum: Inscribed to our Soldier Boys: by Ada Rose. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. March 10th, 1862. (R. N. S. from the Memphis Avalanche.)

“The Yankee hosts are coming,

With their glittering rows of steel,”—

Nil Desperandum: By Mrs. C. A. Warfield. (E. V. M., ’69.)

“Yield! never! while a foothold

Is left on Southern soil”—

The 9th of April, 1865: From the London Spectator. (C. S. B.)

“It is a nation’s death cry! Yes, the agony is past,

The stoutest race that ever fought today hath fought its last,”—