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Camden S.C. April 17th 1866
"The evening sun hath gently kissed,
a silent, soft, good-bye", & I have been
sitting in the twilight shadows, musing,
of my idolized Brother & Sister: one a
happy spirit in the realms on high, the
other a loved inmate of her beautiful
Virginia home: Methought I saw you
standing alone & with upward gaze;
trying (as I have been) to pierce through
the cloud, dividing us from spirit land,
& as the fast gathering tears, tributes of
love to his memory, roll slowly & silently
down your cheeks, I long to kiss them
all away & whisper what I feel : In vain
were all my efforts "to win some token
of my Brother's love, from those far off
mysterious worlds above", & my heart
yearned so for his presence, it almost
seemed bursting from its tenement of clay,