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(To i^U$$ fiavriot ^inrltttcii, 
 
 LAST SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF GEN. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. 
 ON HER EIGHTY SECOND BIRTHDAY. 
 
 Changed, cluinged our hopes, our dreams, our lives ; 
 
 What record of the Past survives 
 
 Tn the fierce whirlwind, which has brought 
 
 Strong youth and feeble age to nought '/ 
 
 Onr homes of beauty and of pride'*' 
 
 Lie blackened ruins far and wide ; 
 
 And with swift steps, on every hand 
 
 Terror and death stalk through the land. 
 
 A sadden'd household : far are we 
 From that fair home beside the sea, 
 Where we were wont to hail this time 
 Thy natal day, with tlowcrs and rhyme ! 
 The voice is stili, that charmed thine car 
 With welcome, each revolving year, 
 And dark those eyes, whose lovely light 
 Long made our home a spot so bright.t 
 
 And can ice wisii tiiei; joy and calm 
 Whose hearts have equal n('c<l of l>nlm 'f 
 Not e'en this day can win a strain 
 Untouched with gloom, unfraugbt witli ])ain. 
 Oh 1 that the great lienignant Power 
 Would lift me to some lofty tower, 
 Some hill of faith with summit clear. 
 Above this murky atmosplicrc 
 
 From wiiencc I might ibe b'titure see. 
 And all the Idcssings yet to be : 
 ^tiofht sec upon our countrv's brow 
 A crown, not all oi' thorns, as now : 
 ilicht ijcathcr up. as in a wreath, 
 Each noble deed which conqucr'd Death : 
 And show them in the golden sun 
 Of Per.ce and Fume thai shall be won. 
 
 Right l»ravely hast thou borne thy part — 
 iropc on — Trust on — true patriot heart. 
 Columhia. S. <"., D''r. IH.'.:;. E. I'. ?^. 
 
 - The noble residences olGeii. C C. I'inckney ;uk1 of -lolin Rutledgo, wliirli 
 were destroyed with all their precious contents, in the great fire of lS(il. 
 
 I Mrs. Holbrook, grand-daughter of .John Rutledgo .ind gre.i(-niece of (ion. 
 Pinckney, died Oetohcr IWP,. 
 
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