Page 192 illustration from "golden links in the chain that connects mother, home and heaven. The literature of many ages and many climes on the three dearest names to mortals given. " (https://archive. Org/details/golden-links-in-the-chain-that-connects-mother-home-and-heaven ) edited by mrs. J. P. Newman (angeline ensign newman)
text reads:
"but a comrade stood beside him while his life-blood ebbed away--
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'tell my mother that her other son shall comfort her old age;
for i was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage'--
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the soldier of the legion in a foreign land is dead?". Date: 1890.
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