My father, comrade, you will tell about this bloody fray,
My country's standard, say to him, was safe with me today.
I've made a pillow of it now on which ot lay my head,
A winding sheet you'll make of it when I am with the dead.
I know 'twill grieve his inmost soul to think, that nevermore,
I'll sit with him beneath the oak that shades his cottage door.
But tell the time worn patriot that mindful of his fame,
Upon this bloody battlefield I sullied not his name.
My mothers form is with me now, her wail is in mine ear,
and drop by drop as flows my blood so drops from her she tears.
Then O'! when you shall tell to her the tidings of this day,
Speak softly comrade, softly speak what you may have to say.
Speak not to her in hurried words the blighting words you bear,
The cords of life might snap too soon so comrade have a care.
I am her only, cherished child; but tell her that I died,
Rejoicing that she taught me young to take my country's side.
But comrade there is one, I fain, once more would you look upon?
She lives upon the sloping hill that overlooks the lawn.
The lawn where I shall never more in spring time's pleasent hours,
Go forth with her in merry mood to gather wood and flowers.
Tell her , when death was on my brow and life receding fast,
Her voice, her form, her parting words were with me the the last.
On Beauna Vista's bloody field, tell her I dying lay,
And that I knew she thought of me some thousand miles away.
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