-
"Hurrah, hurrah,
-
sound the loud timbale over Egypt's dark sea.
-
Early this morning
-
our ears were greeted with the sound of bells ringing a joyous peal.
-
General Lee had surrendered with his whole army to General Grant!"
-
She's got exclamation marks all over the place.
-
"Surely this is the Lord's doing,
-
and it is marvelous in our eyes."
-
And she goes on and on and on,
-
all kinds of biblical cadences
-
to talk about the sense of jubilation she sees
-
in the streets of her Massachusetts town.