The Superior Times

A Song for "Decoration Day."

[The following song, written by Miss Annie Herbert, for "Decoration Day," and set to music by James G. Clark, the well-known lyric poet and singer, has just been issued in sheet form, as song and chorus, by Oliver Ditson, Boston.]

THEY ARE SLEEPING.

They are sleeping where flow'rs of the glade and the hill
In a mantle of love have arrayed them.
While the cannon is hush'd and the bugle is still.
Sleeping on where their comrades have laid them.
Oh! the days will grow long while they linger away
In their homes which the green mosses cover,
And our eyes never trace on their headstones so grey,
The dear name of friend or of lover.

CHORUS.

Columbia, Queen of the free and the brave,
For the faith that deserted thee never.
May thy banner of stars over mountain and wave
Guard the graves of thy heroes forever.

How still are the ranks of Columbia's dead,
Yet they rushed on the waves of the battle.
How lowly the pride of each grass-covered head
That faced the fierce musket's rattle.
Yet better by far is their death than the life
Of the soulless who shrink from their duty.
God crowned
them as martyrs--who fell in the
strife--
And their lives are transfigured in beauty

Columbia's jewels, how brightly they shine
By the rivers, the sands and savannahs,
While Peace rings her Jubilee anthem divine,
And the hills answer back with huzzas.
May the heart never throb 'neath the heavens above
That thrills not to hear of their story.
And the arm be unnerved that would seek to re-
move
One leaf from the crown of their glory.