Dear Sarah (The Ballad of Sullivan Ballou)

My very dear Sarah

I feel compelled to write the lines

That you may read when I am gone

For our country calls me to the battlefield

And I am willing

Not my will, but thine, O God be done

If it is necessary that I should fall

Then I am ready

Forgive me for my many faults

And the pain I may have caused

Foolish I have often been

Thoughtless again and again

Ooo

Sarah

My love for you is deathless

The memories of our blissfulness

Come creeping over me

And gratifyingly

I thank God that we

Ever got to be

No misgivings

For the cause in which I'm engaged

Sarah, do not mourn me

For we shall meet again

It's hard for me to give you up

And burn down hopes of future years

Where we would see our family grow

A destiny I'll never know

And when my last breath escapes me

It will whisper

Sarah

My soul will be your guiding light

Through your brightest day and darkest night

I'll be the strength when you are weak

And the breeze upon your cheek

My love forever true

I will wait for you