Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — ON EVERY SOLDIER’S GRAVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ON EVERY SOLDIER’S GRAVE.

It’s lonesome—sort o’ lonesome—it’s a Stmd’y I day toiane, . It ’pears any day I nearly ever seal Yit, with the stars and stripes above, a-flut-terin in the air, . ■< On ev’rV soldier’s grave I’d love to lay a lilythare. They say, thergh. Decoration days is grner’ly observed ’STqst ev’rywharss—espeshally fry soldier boys ~.that’a But ge-ajid mother’s never went—we seldom In pmt-o’ laet, we’re alius home-on Decoration They say the old boys marches through the ’ streets i< ■ eolnm’s grand, A-fol’erin the old war tunes they’re pinyin on tiro banr. AaßlcUiZUhs -11 jiuin in—and little children, too— 1 T_i AU iac.reb.in under shelter of the old red, white and blue.

With roses! roses! roses!—ev’rybody in the miy^tece^— 22202 D—... ... : And crowds o’little girls in white, jest fairly loaded dowhl. Oh! don’t the boys know it, frotn theyr camp acro?t the hill? Don’t they see t heyr cbth’ards comin land the old ling v..win still? Oh, can’’: they heafrtlre'bugußthd the rattle of ’ thefirmn? - - Ain’t they no way under heavens they can r:t:'frotlei't us some? Ain’t they no way w.e ettn coax ’gni through the roses jest to say They know that ev’ry day on earth’s theyr Decoration day? We’yo tried that—me and mother—whore Elias takes: : rest, —: —■- In the orchurd, in his uniform, and. hands acrcst his brest. And the flag he died fer smilin and a-ripplin in the breezo Above his gruve, and over that a robin in the trees! '■ And yit it’s lonesome, lonesome—it’s a Sund’y day to me. It ’pears like—inor’n any day I nearly ever see! Still, With the stars and stripes above, a-ilut-terin in the air. On cv’ry soldier’s grave I’d love to lay a lily tliare. m —James Vvjbitcomb Kiley.

“WE'VE TRIED THAT ME AND MOTHER."