SONG.
To the tune of Tennyson's "Home they brought her warrior dead."
(General Hill fell in the battle before Petersburg, and was the last man buried with military honours on the eve of the evacuation).
LAY the stern old warrior down,
Deeply in his narrow bed,
Ere the conqueror sack the town,
Ere the foeman o'er him tread.
They who checked the battle-tide—
Hoary warriors weeping said,
"Foremost where the bravest died,