Hush'd Be the Camps to-Day a L Buried April 19, 1865
HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY.
A. L. BURIED APRIL 19, 1865.
1HUSH'D be the camps to-day;
And, soldiers, let us drape our war-worn weapons;
And each, with musing soul retire, to celebrate,
Our dear commander's death.
2No more for him life's stormy conflicts;
Nor victory, nor defeat—No more time's dark events,
Charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky.
3But sing, poet, in our name;
Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly. 4Sing, to the lower'd coffin there; Sing, with the shovel'd clods that fill the grave—a
verse, For the heavy hearts of soldiers.