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LYNN'S STATION ON BEARGRASS.
I.
As the clouds and the shadows are lifted,And roll from my vision away,
Lynn's Station appears on the Beargrass,
With the green groves around it that lay;
And I see gallant forms and sweet faces,
Such as brightened a day that is o'er,
And my ear catches faint and far echoes
Of voices I'll hear never-more—
Never-more—never-more—
Loved voices I'll hear again never,
Never-more.
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2.
Now my mind and my heart, in their fullness,Wander back to the days that have been,
And my breast swells and throbs with emotion,
Over memories of girlhood and Lynn.
Although dangers there threaten'd us often,
Man's strong arm was a shield and a spear;
And woman's true heart made it stronger,
As she bravely sang out, “Never fear!—
Never fear!—never fear!
Though the strong win not always the battle,
Never fear!”
3.
And now I behold Nannie Allen,Who was kill'd in her maidenly bloom,
And her gallant young lover, John Martin,
Who in tears and alone dug her tomb.
On a green grassy knoll, by the river,
O'erlooking the Falls far below,
In the flush and the flower of her beauty,
We laid her to rest long ago—
Long ago—long ago—
And the winds and the waves sang her requiem,
Long ago.
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VIII.
The tones of the violin lingered,As if they were part of the air,
Impregning the place with the holy
And beautiful spirit of prayer:
Ere long, though, the murmur was broken
By a resonant clarion blast,
And before the enraptured assembly
The host and the hostess pass'd.
On their taking position together,
The clarion ended its play—
And he sang then this song of their Love-Life
In Kentucky's old Pioneer-Day:—
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