Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1916 — The Old Color-Bearer [ARTICLE]

The Old Color-Bearer

Through the city’s crowded highways, Marches on the color-bearer: White his hair falls to his shoulders. White as Colorado’s mountains. Proud he bears aloft the standard, Proud he bore it in the Sixties; Kenesaw and Lookout Mountain, High above the clouds it floated. Heed, ye young men", heed the lesson. Keep untarnished all its glory; Glory kindling first at Concord, 'Spreading West to far Malolos. Heed ye! Heed ye well the lesson! Grow not up untrained for battle; Sell ye not your precious birthright For a sordid mess of pottage. Chant our epic, fellow-patriots. Firmly weld the new-come aliens; Tell of Prescott, Hale and Reynolds, Custer, Benchley and young Cheney. Thus will all the wars and rumors Fade away as fades the twilight, True to all our fathers died for, Firm we’ll march adown the ages. —G. W. Taylor in Uncle Sam’s Magazine.