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Wo had won a glorious battle,
And die enemy, beaten, fled.
Then they counted tlie dead ELiid wounded,
And found him among- the slain;
0 G o d ! had I known when we parted
W e were never £.0 meet again !
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1 couldn't belie™ the story,
I couldn't believe that lie—
M y da fling, my soldier husband—
W ould never come back to me,
T had thought of him nig]it and morning;
I had passed 3ong nights on my knees
Praying that God would bring him
Back to me over the seas.

It nil camc bach like a vision ;
T could hear the band as it played
When the retd men t marched to the station,
And the noise that the people made
A s they shouk'd “ Good luck ! " to the soldiers,
And gave them three ringing cheers,
Whiles the women, with a-:hen Tacps,
W alhed by the side in tears.

We walked bv his side that morning,
And Nellie wa? quite elate
With the band and the crowd and the cheering—

M y Nellie wns o n l y eight.
She never thought of the danger;
He bad tried to make her gay,
And to id her to take cel re of mother— -
Me wouldn't be Song away.