Soldier Songs and Love Songs - nouveau livre

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE UNION OATH. By the Revolution's dead, By their Blood in battle shed, By the Earth that drank their gore, By the Heaven in which they soar, By the Union Stripe and Star, By the God of Righteous War, Swear to conquer, or to die! Swear to conquer, Swear to conquer, Swear to conquer now, or die ! By the Revolution's dead, By their Blood in battle shed, By the Earth that drank their gorer By the Heaven in which they soar, By the Union Stripe and Star, By the God of Righteous War, We will conquer now, or die! We will conquer! We will conquer! We will conquer now, or die I chapter{Section 4BETSIE BROWN. I Have loved you all my days, Betsie Brown, And I'll never cease to praise Betsie Brown; Still must I break love's tie, To act a patriot part, But I'll yield thee, as I die, The last throb of my heart, Betsie Brown! For my country let me die, Betsie Brown, And never grieve nor cry, Betsie Brown, But lay me down to sleep Where my country's tempests rave, Where its mountain moss can creep O'er an humble patriot's grave, Betsie Brown! And should my boy, with thee, Betsie Brown, By my grave once bend the knee, Betsie Brown, Teach hi? to bleed or die For his country or his God, Like him whose ashes lie Beneath the loving sod, Betsie Brown ! chapter{Section 5SWORD OF JEHOVAH. Sword of Jehovah, swing O'er the world's ravening, Wide on the tempest's wing, Swing far ! Swing free ! Where the mailed hand is set, Braced to the bayonet, Bloody and warm and wet, Swing far! Swing free! Strike where the sordid great Revel in royal state, Liberty desolate, Strike far! Strike free! Where the King's coursers champ, Where the mailed millions tramp, Ringed round the tyrant's camp, Strike far! Strike free! Fall...