Brown, Joseph Warren -- 1844 - 1863

BROWN

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 4/17/2005 at 16:12:12

NEW OREGON PLAIN DEALER March 6, 1863 P2 C3

DIED--In Orleans township, Winneshiek County, Iowa, March 3rd, 1863, Joseph Warren Brown a member of Company "I" 38 Iowa Volunteers, aged 18 years, 3 months, and 20 days.

Close his eyes: his work is done!
What to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of moon, or set of sun,
Hand of man, or kiss of woman!
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow!
What cares he? he cannot know:
Lay him low!

Fold him in his country's stars,
Roll the drum and fire the volley;
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow!
What cares he? he cannot know:
Lay him low!

Leave him to God's watching eye,
Trust him to the hand that made him.
Mortal love weeps idly by:
God alone has power to aid him,
Lay him low, lay him low.
In the clover or the snow!
What cares he? he cannot know:
Lay him low!

Source: Reprinted in Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Feb. 24, 1903 LP, C6

MARCH 6
“DIED—In Orleans township, Winnesheiksic} county, Iowa, March 3rd. 1863 Joseph Warren Brown, a member of Company “I” 38th Iowa Voulnteers,{sic} aged 18 years 3 months and 20 days.

Fold him in his country’s stars
Roll the drum and fire the volley;
What to him are all our wars
What but Death bemocking folly.
Lay him low, lay him low
In the clover or the snow;
What cares he? he cannot know;
Lay him low.