Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1910 — NOT TOO OLD TO MARCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOT TOO OLD TO MARCH.

SHOULD not try to march, you think, on Decoration Day, For fear I’ll overtax myself and falter by the way; But don’t v you know the beat of drums will make my shoulders square.

For I shall feel the old-time strength when music’s in the air; And where,the old Flag leads the way, my feet will follow on, For that is how we soldiers marched, and how our fights were won. I know that many years have passed; sometimes I think I’m old; For hair-is white and hands are weak, and blood runs thin and cold: But there is fire somewhere within that flares up at the beat And roll of any drums I hear along the village street; So I’ll put on my uniform, and join my comrades dear, And march with them to honor those who march no longer here. We’ll lay the flowers about the Flag that waves on every grave, And tell the deeds of valor o’er that helped the Flag to save Unstained and beautiful; we’ll say the office for the dead; And hearts that have been sore with loss, will half be comforted. And so I’ll turn out with the Boys, the gallant Boys in Blue, And we will follow Flag and drum tho way we used to do. —Emma A. .Lente in New York Christian Advocate.