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Thou art sleeping brother sleeping	A
In thy lonely battle grave	B
Shadows o'er the past are creeping	A
Death the reaper still is reaping	A
Years have swept and years are sweeping	A
Many a memory from my keeping	A
But I'm waiting still and weeping	A
For my beautiful and brave	B
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When the battle songs were chanted	C
And war's stirring tocsin pealed	C
By those songs thy heart was haunted	C
And thy spirit proud undaunted	C
Clamored wildly wildly panted	C
Mother let my wish be granted	C
I will ne'er be mocked and taunted	C
That I fear to meet our vaunted	C
Foemen on the bloody field	C
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They are thronging mother thronging	A
To a thousand fields of fame	D
Let me go 'tis wrong and wronging	A
God and thee to crush this longing	A
On the muster roll of glory	E
In my country's future story	E
On the field of battle gory	E
I must consecrate my name	D
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Mother gird my sword around me	E
Kiss thy soldier boy good bye '	-
In her arms she wildly wound thee	E
To thy birth land's cause she bound thee	E
With fond prayers and blessings crowned thee	E
And she sobbed When foes surround thee	E
If you fall I'll know they found thee	E
Where the bravest love to die	C
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At the altar of their nation	F
Stood that mother and her son	F
He the victim of oblation	F
Panting for his immolation	F
She in priestess' holy station	F
Weeping words of consecration	F
While God smiled his approbation	F
Blessed the boy's self abnegation	F
Cheered the mother's desolation	F
When the sacrifice was done	F
	-
Forth like many a noble other	G
Went he whispering soft and low	H
Good bye pray for me my mother	G
Sister kiss me farewell brother	G
And he strove his grief to smother	G
Forth with footsteps firm and fearless	I
And his parting gaze was tearless	I
Though his heart was lone and cheerless	I
Thus from all he loved to go	H
	-
Lo yon flag of freedom flashing	A
In the sunny Southern sky	C
On to death and glory dashing	A
On where swords are clanging clashing	A
On where balls are crushing crashing	A
On 'mid perils dread appalling	A
On they're falling falling falling	A
On they're growing fewer fewer	G
On their hearts beat all the truer	G
On on on no fear no falter	G
On though round the battle altar	G
There were wounded victims moaning	A
There were dying soldiers groaning	A
On right on death's danger braving	A
Warring where their flag was waving	A
While Baptismal blood was laving	A
All that field of death and slaughter	G
On still on that bloody lava	J
Made them braver and made them braver	G
On with never a halt or waver	G
On in battle bleeding bounding	A
While the glorious shout swept sounding	A
We will win the day or die	C
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And they won it routed riven	F
Reeled the foemen's proud array	K
They had struggled hard and striven	F
Blood in torrents they had given	F
But their ranks dispersed and driven	F
Fled in sullenness away	K
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Many a heart was lonely lying	A
That would never throb again	F
Some were dead and some were dying	A
Those were silent these were sighing	A
Thus to die alone unattended	C
Unbewept and unbefriended	C
On that bloody battle plain	F
	-
When the twilight sadly slowly	E
Wrapped its mantle o'er them all	L
Thousands thousands lying lowly	E
Hushed in silence deep and holy	E
There was one his blood was flowing	A
And his last of life was going	A
	-
And his pulse faint fainter beating	A
Told his hours were few and fleeting	A
And his brow grew white and whiter	G
While his eyes grew strangely brighter	G
There he lay like infant dreaming	A
With his sword beside him gleaming	A
For the hand in life that grasped it	C
True in death still fondly clasped it	C
There his comrades found him lying	A
'Mid the heaps of dead and dying	A
And the sternest bent down weeping	A
O'er the lonely sleeper sleeping	A
'Twas the midnight stars shone round him	M
And they told us how they found him	M
Where the bravest love to fall	L
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Where the woods like banners bending	A
Drooped in starlight and in gloom	N
There when that sad night was ending	A
And the faint far dawn was blending	A
With the stars now fast descending	A
There they mute and mournful bore him	M
With the stars and shadows o'er him	M
And they laid him down so tender	G
And the next day's sun in splendor	G
Flashed above my brother's tomb	N

Abram Joseph Ryan

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