d
The youngest, gentlest of his band,
Stood Lennard on that day;
Fierce raged the conflict o'er the dead,
Until, o'erpowered, the vanquished fled;
Yet ere they left the fray
One aimed the bloody lance he bore
At Huon's heart--a moment more,
And Lennard fell, his life-blood o'er
The green turf welling fast;
The blade that sought his leader's breast
His hand aside had cast;
Swift to his aid his comrades prest;
The death-hue on his forehead lay
As Huon flung both sword and lance
With quivering lip away,
And met in Lennard's dying glance
The smile of Morna Grey.

XX.

Beside the Santee's murmuring wave,
They made the early dead a grave;
And sometimes on its borders green
The passing traveler has seen
A spot where pale wild roses blow
The lofty oaks and firs below--
The turf is verdant with the spray--
There sleeps the dust of Morna Grey.
And Huon?--Still his daring arm
Was lifted in his country's aid,
Though life had lost its sunniest charm,
And o'er the future hung a shade;
And time would fail me now to tell
Of all the deeds his valor wrought,
How, when Fort Moultrie's color fell,
He mounted 'mid the flames and shot
The merlon height, and fixed on high
The starry banner 'mid the sky.
Nor how he died--the nobly slain,
In bearing from the battle-plain
The flag intrusted to his care.
But deeds like these were common then
As life, and light, and air;
Brave deeds that shall forever round
Our nation's annals cling;
Perchance some louder harp shall sound,
Some bolder spirit sing.
For me--the first pale star on high
Herald's the night with beaming eye,
And down the west has rolled the sun--
My song is o'er--my task is done.

NOTE.

During the Revolution, a young girl plighted to an
officer of Marion's corps, followed him without being
discovered to the camp, where, dressed in male attire,
and unknown to him, she enrolled in the service. A few
days after, during a fierce conflict that occurred, she
stood by his side in the thickest of the fight, and in
turning away a lance aimed at his heart received it in
her own, and fell bleeding at his feet. She was buried
on the banks of the Santee. He was afterward
distinguished in the service at Fo