Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — OVER THEIR GRAVES. [ARTICLE]

OVER THEIR GRAVES.

Over their graves rang once the bugle’s call, The searching shrapnel,and the abashing ball; The shriek, the shock of battle, and the neigh Of horse; the cries of anguish and dismay; And the loud cannon’s thunders that appall. Now through the years.the brown pine-needles fall, The vines run riot by the old stone wall, By hedge, by meadow streamlet, far away, Over their graves! We love our dead where’er st/hfld In thrall— Than they no Greek more bravely died, nor Gaul— A love that’s deathless! but they look to-day With no reproaches on us when we say, “Come! let us clasp your hands, we're brothers au/rz:: Over their graves! —Henry Jerome Stockard in The Century.