Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett
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The old home has passed into stranger hands, as Mrs. Wilson was
persuaded to sell it after the death of her husband and her removal to the city. In Magnolia Cemetery in the home city so dear to her, Augusta Evans Wilson rests beside the brother whom she was seeking when her midnight song thrilled the hearts of the defenders of the Stars and Bars on Look-out Mountain. On her laurel-wreathed monument are the lines written by Mr. De Leon when the dawn of one May morning brought him the sad tidings that his friend of many years had passed from earth: Dead, in her fulness of years and of fame, What has she left? High on the roll of fair Duty, a name: Love, friends devoted as few mortals claim: A Nation bereft! |
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