To-morrow!—Fain the elder would have spoken,
Prayed for respite, tho' it is not death he fears;
But thoughts of home and wife his heart hath
broken,
And his words are stopped by tears.
But the youngest—Oh! he speaks out bold and
clearly:—
"I have no ties of children or of wife;
Let me die—but spare the brother, who more
dearly