...heard a dream go by! FRANK 0. TICKNOR. LITTLE OIFFEX. Our of the focal and foremost fire, Out of tlie hospital walls as dire; Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle, and lie sixteen!) Spectre! suoli as you seldom see, Little Giffen, of Tennessee! " Take him and welcome!"...

...akin to the most exalted song. The opening stanza is a bold swell of music, something clurion-like : " Out of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...walls, as dire. Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, tEighteenth battle and he sixteen,) Spectre, such as yon seldom see. Little Giffln, of Tennessee."...

...last day, Shall consecrate thy hallowed clay ! GALVESTON, TEXAS, June 5th, 1866. BY FO TICKNOB, MD OUT of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...sixteen:) Spectre, such as you seldom see— Little GhTen of Tennessee! " Take him—and welcome!" the surgeons said; " Much your Doctor can help the dead!"...

...lilies may embody as much Poetry as Truth, for they are, he fears, the sole monument to LITTLE GIFFEN. Out of the focal and foremost fire — Out of the...dire; Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth 1 'attic, and he, sixteen;) Spectre, such as you seldom see — Little Giffen of Tennessee! " Take...

...consecrate thy hallowed clay ! QALVESTON, TEXAS, June 5th, 1866. f ittl* gift**. BY r. O. TICKNOR, MD OUT of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital walls as dire ; Smitten of grape — shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen :) Spectre, such as you seldom see...

...precisely of the style of Delavigne. The opening stanza is a bold swell of music, something clarionlike. "'Out of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...such as you seldom see, Little Giffen, of Tennessee !' The identical rhyme of the last couplet one loses sight of in the exceeding terseness of the language,...

...sky; Time seemed to pause a little space; 1 heard a dream go by ! FRANK 0. TICKNOR. LITTLE GIFFEX. OUT of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle, and be sixteen!) Spectre ! such as you seldom see, Little Oiffcn, of Tennessee! " Take him and welcome!"...

...now — My darling- thou shalt rest ! " FQRCEYTHE WDLJ-SON. BUGLE-ECHOES: LITTLE GIFFEN OF TENNESSEE. OUT of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...(Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen ! ) Spectre such as we seldom see, Little Giffen of Tennessee ! " Take him — and welcome !" the surgeon said ; "Much...

...bless thee — bless thc^e now — My darling, thou shall rest !" FORCEYTSE LITTLE GIFFEN OF TENNESSEE. OUT of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...(Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen ! ) Spectre such as we seldom see, Little Giffen of Tennessee ! " Take him— and welcome !" the surgeon said ; "Much your...

...old Dominion keep, Whose foes have found enchanted ground, But not a knight asleep. LITTLE GIFFEN. OUT of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital...Giffen, of Tennessee! "Take him and welcome! " the surgeons said; Little the doctor can help the dead! So we took him; and brought him where The balm...