You Can Never Win Them Back.

By Catherine M. Warfield.



You can never win them back,
never! never!
Though they perish on the track
of your endeavor;
Though their corses strew the earth
That smiled upon their birth,
And blood pollutes each hearthstone
forever!

They have risen, to a man
stern and fearless;
Of your curses and your ban
they are careless.
Every hand is on its knife;
Every gun is primed for strife;
Every palm contains a life
high and peerless!

You have no such blood as theirs
for the shedding,
In the veins of Cavaliers
was its heading.