In prayer, but the unfinished words are quelled

By groans of agony; some wait for death

With stubborn pride that scorns to murmur; some

Rave of cool forests and of shady rivers,

In their delirious pain; the dead and dying

Tenant that valley only.

C. L. Reddell.

From the sword at noonday wasting,

From the noisome pestilence,

In the depth of midnight blasting,