From: “A Letter From Sullivan Ballou”

A Letter From Sullivan Ballou

by

JOHN KANDER

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 A LETTER FROM SULLIVAN BALLOU
My very dear Sarah:
The indications are very strong that we move in a few Music by
days — perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to JOHN KANDER
write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may
fall upon your eye when I am no more.

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I have no mis - giv-ings a - bout or lack of

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con - fi - dence in the cause in which I am en - gaged,

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and my cour-age does not halt or fal - ter. I know how strong-ly A-mer-i - can

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civ - i - li - za - tion now leans on the tri - umph of the gov - ern - ment

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and how great a debt we owe to those who went be-fore us through the

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blood and suf - fer - ings of the rev - o - lu - tion. And I am

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will - ing, per - fect - ly will - ing to lay down all my joys in this

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life to help main - tain this gov-ern - ment and to pay that debt...

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secco poco cresc.

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Sar - ah, my love for you is death - less. It seems to

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bind me with might - y ca - bles that noth - ing but om - ni - po - tence could break;

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and yet my love of coun - try comes o - ver me like a strong

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wind and bears me un - re - sist - a - bly on with all these chains to the

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bat - tle - field. The mem - ’ries of the bliss - ful

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mo - ments I have spent with you come creep - ing o - ver me, and I

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feel most grat - i - fied to God and to you that I have en-joyed them so long. And

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hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ash - es the hopes of fu - ture

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years when, God will - ing, we might still have lived and loved to-geth - er and

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seen our sons grown up to hon - or - a - ble man - hood a - round us.

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I have, I know, but a few and small claims

poco detache

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up - on di - vine prov - i - dence, but

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some - thing whis - pers to me, per - haps it is the waft - ed prayer

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of my lit - tle Ed - gar, that I shall re-turn to my loved ones un -

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harmed. If I do

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not, my dear Sar - ah, nev - er for - get how much I love you,

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and when my last breath es - capes me on the bat - tle - field, it will whis - per your name.

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For - give my

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faults and the man - y pains I have caused you.

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How thought - less and fool - ish I have of - ten times been! How

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glad - ly would I wash out with my tears ev - ’ry lit - tle spot up - on your

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hap - pi - ness... But,

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oh, Sar - ah! If the

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dead can come back to this earth and flit un -

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seen a - round those they loved, I shall al - ways be

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near you; in the glad - est days

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and in the dark - est nights, al -

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ways, al -

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ways.

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And if there be a soft breeze up - on your cheek,

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it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throb-bing tem - ple,

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it shall be my spir - it pass - ing by.

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Sar - ah, do not

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mourn me dead; think I am gone

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and wait for thee, for we shall meet

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a - gain...

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116 My very dear Sarah: The indications are strong that we shall move

118 in a few days - perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel

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impelled to write a few lines that may fall on your eye when I am no more.

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dim. al niente

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