“Come gentle muse, give me your aid,

Sharp make my pen as Ashby’s blade”—

A Song for Dogs: 1864. (West. Res.)

“Our fathers were men in the days that are past—

What a pity it is that our fathers are dead!”—

Song for the Irish Brigade: By Shamrock of the Sumpter Rifles. (R. R.)

“Not now for the songs of a nation’s wrongs,

Nor the groans of starving labor,”—

Song for the South: (Randolph)

“A shout! a wild glad shout of joy!