Garden, orchard, meadow, hill,

Barns and bowers;

Take your fill, and have your will—

Virginia’s yours!

But, bluebirds! keep away, and fear

The ambuscade in bushes here.

“A green song that,” a seargeant said;

“But where’s poor Pansy? gone, I fear”

“Ay, mustered out at Ashby’s Gap”

“I see; now for a live man’s song;