POEMS
By:
Joyce Nunn Shumate, President
Elizabeth
Cain Musgrove Chapter, #1929
United
Daughters of the Confederacy
SOLDIERS
OF THE HOME FRONT
A
Mother sets in a rocking chair,
By
the fireplace light,
How
must she feel to know her son,
Is
in a battle tonight?
A
young wife sets nursing her child,
As
she softly cries,
Wishing
her husband had seen his son,
Before
their last good-byes.
A
grandmother sets with Bible in hand,
Her
eyes closed in prayer,
Asking
protection for her only grandson,
Who's
in the battle there.
A
sweetheart set alone in the dark,
A
letter in her hand,
From
her brave soldier who wares the gray,
Defending
our Southern land.
The
Southern women bravely waits,
For
the men who marched away,
Not
knowing what tomorrow may bring,
For
their men in gray.
The Song Is: "LORENA"
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