Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — THE VALLEY OF THE GETTYSBURG [ARTICLE]

THE VALLEY OF THE GETTYSBURG

BY JAMES S. SULLIVAN.

One dusk, long summers gone, the whitecheeked moon Beheld this valley reel with war. But now, Where yon still hamlet’s windows redly glow At eve, the housewives gossip, or else croon Soft lullabies. Through the long afternoon The children gambol in the vale below, The lustrous lilies at their moorings blow, The mowers move with scythes in merry tune. Chime faintly far from out the white church spire Those evening bells; slow move the creaking wains Down purple glens ablaze with sunset fire, And low-necked kine trudge home through thick-leafed lanes. 6 Sweet vale, the only sword now there that’s seen Is the moon’s scimiter in skies serene. Marlboro, Mass.