“I dreamed that I dwelt in marble halls,

And ’tis not so, you see,”—

Our Country’s Call: By H. Walter. (Randolph.)

“To arms! oh, men in all our Southern clime,

Do you not scent the battle from afar,”—

Our Dead: By Col. A. M. Hobby. Galveston News, Texas. Jan., 1866. (E. V. M.)

“Vile, brutal man! and darest thou

In God’s anointed place to preach”—

Our Departed Comrades: By J. Marion Shirer, a Soldier in the Field. (W. G. S.)

“I am sitting alone by a fire