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Poor Richard's reasons for buying United States' securities [16]

Enclosure: "My Bible"; "Evening brings us home" [17]

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Title: Facing pages [120-121]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640429-18640430
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Transcription: Home, Twas there I lay me down upon my pillow. A Soldier's pillow. knapsack hard and worn, Beneath the shelter of a drooping willow. To rest my weary limbs till break of [morn]. Thus on my earthy couch, 'neath heaven's bright dome. I fell asleep, and sleeping dreamed of home. I dreamed my soldier labors all were o'er Service expired, and home ward I did [illegible] to that loved spot where I should meet once more. The dear ones I had left in days gone by. The train sped swiftly on its home-ward track. As if in [illegible] to bring the soldiers back. Home, Home, home. I see it as a I would the turn, the head grows dizzy and the pulses leap. Impatitience mixed with joy - oh how I yearn to meet those loved one's - how I laugh then weep. Home, yes tis home loved ones are there, waiting. Sister and Brother too my bliss to share. There is the hillside where I used to play there is the brooklet that I loved so well, the same old rocks of gneiss and granite [illegible]. And there beneath them lies the [illegible][illegible]. Yet best of all there is my cottage home. Thither I'm hasting never [illegible] to roam. ----------------------------- April 29-30 Friday and Saturday [These entries contain copied poems] Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
Parent Item: Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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