Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night: When You, My Son And My Comrade, Dropt At My Side That Day, One Look I But Gave, Which Your Dear Eyes Return'D, With A Look I Shall Never Forget; One Touch Of Your Hand To Mine, O Boy, Reach'D Up As You Lay On The Ground; Then Onward I Sped In The Battle, The Even-Contested Battle; Till Late In The Night Reliev'D, To The Place At Last Again I Made My Way; Found You In Death So Cold, Dear Comrade, Found Your Body, Son Of Responding Kisses, (Never Again On Earth Responding;) Bared Your Face In The Starlight, Curious The Scene, Cool Blew The Moderate Night-Wind; Long There And Then In Vigil I Stood, Dimly Around Me The Battlefield Spreading; Vigil Wondrous And Vigil Sweet, There In The Fragrant Silent Night; But Not A Tear Fell, Not Even A Long-Drawn Sigh, Long, Long I Gazed; Then On The Earth Partially Reclining, Sat By Your Side, Leaning My Chin In My Hands; Passing Sweet Hours, Immortal And Mystic Hours With You, Dearest Comrade, Not A Tear, Not A Word; Vigil Of Silence, Love And Death, Vigil For You My Son And My Soldier, As Onward Silently Stars Aloft, Eastward New Ones Upward Stole; Vigil Final For You, Brave Boy, (I Could Not Save You, Swift Was Your Death, I Faithfully Loved You And Cared For You Living, I Think We Shall Surely Meet Again;) Till At Latest Lingering Of The Night, Indeed Just As The Dawn Appear'D, My Comrade I Wrapt In His Blanket, Envelop'D Well His Form, Folded The Blanket Well, Tucking It Carefully Over Head, And Carefully Under Feet; And There And Then, And Bathed By The Rising Sun, My Son In His Grave, In His Rude-Dug Grave I Deposited; Ending My Vigil Strange With That, Vigil Of Night And Battlefield Dim; Vigil For Boy Of Responding Kisses, (Never Again On Earth Responding;) Vigil For Comrade Swiftly Slain, Vigil I Never Forget, How As Day Brighten'D, I Rose From The Chill Ground, And Folded My Soldier Well In His Blanket, And Buried Him Where He Fell.