Upon my bosom lies
A knot of blue and gray;
You ask me why tears fill my eyes
As low to you I say:
"I had two brothers once,
Warmhearted, bold and gay;
They left my side—one wore the blue,
The other wore the gray.
One rode with "Stonewall" and his men,
And joined his fate with Lee;
The other followed Sherman's march,
Triumphant to the sea.
Both fought for what they deemed the right,
And died with sword in hand;
One sleeps amid Virginia's hills,
And one in Georgia's land.
Why should one's dust be consecrate,
The other's spurned with scorn—
Both victims of a common fate,
Twins cradled, bred and born?
Oh! tell me not—a patriot one,
A traitor vile the other;
John was my mother's favorite son,
But Eddie was my brother.
The same sun shines above their graves,
My love unchanged must stay—
And so upon my bosom lies
Love's knot of blue and gray."
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