Never, till that worst strife of every day,
More bitter-sordid than the clash of steel,
By some new solving word our lips may learn to say,
Be wholly done away,
Deep-drowned in brotherhood, quenched in the common weal,
Ah, never, till every spirit shall stand up free,
Comes the great Liberator’s jubilee!”
GREENCASTLE JENNY
A BALLAD OF ’SIXTY-THREE
Oh, Greencastle streets were a stream of steel
With the slanted muskets the soldiers bore,