Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — MEMORIAL DAY. [ARTICLE]

MEMORIAL DAY.

BY NINETTE M. LOWATER.

Blossom, O flowers, in riotous splendor I Open, O lingering buds, to the light! I will gather you all, frosb, fragrant and tender. And weave you in garlands, sweet, dewy and bright! Over the graves where onr heroes are sleeping I will lay all your beauty and innocent bloom, That they o’er whose dust a nation is weeping May know that we love them, tho’ low In the tomb. Oh, for the tones that are silent forever. Oh, for the hearts that were true to ihe right, Oh, for the arms that knew weariness never. But fought all the day till death’s swift-falling night. Nothing but freedom is worth such devotion, Only the land which our forefathers gave, Redeemed and unbroken from ocean to ocean, Is worth half tho cost of one soldier’s low grave. Bock Elm, Wis.