The Hutchinson Family's book of Poetry : Containing Sixty-Seven of Their Most Popular Songs
The book The Hutchinson Family's book of Poetry : Containing Sixty-Seven of Their Most Popular Songs was written by author Hutchinson, Asa Burnham, 1823-1884 Here you can read free online of The Hutchinson Family's book of Poetry : Containing Sixty-Seven of Their Most Popular Songs book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Hutchinson Family's book of Poetry : Containing Sixty-Seven of Their Most Popular Songs a good or bad book?
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And I was but a truant bird, that thouglit my home a cage ; But my father was a soldier, and, even as a child, IMy heart leaped forth, to hear him tell of struggles fierce and wild And when he died, and left us to divide his scanty hoard, I let them take whate'er they would, but kept my father's sword ; And, with boyish love, I hung it where the bright fir » used to shine. On the cottage wall, at Bingen, sweet Bingen on the Rhine. 28 SONGS OF THE HUTCHINSONS. Tell my sister not to weep for me, ...and sob with drooping liead, When the troops are marching home again, with light and galUnt trcfid. But to look upon them proudly, with a calm and steadfast eye. For her brother was a soldier, too, and not afraid to die 1 Tell her to hang the old sword in its place, my fa thole's sword and mine, For the honor of old Bingen, dear Bingen on the Eliine. There's another — not a sister — in the happy days gone by. You'd have known her by the merriment that sparkled in her eye ; Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning, Oh, friend 1 1 fear the lightest heart makes sometime heaviest mourning.
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