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,”—