Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — MEMORIAL DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEMORIAL DAY

And natures broidery °f untiled by marching, feerw\|V (reeps softly by the cksed dbrsArtW and coversail the street \ And gently as the healing dews (t \ upon the daisies fall, , , And sipeefjy as the chanting birds froth sanny distance The brooding sky, the smiling earths f , the inarm and fragrant air Fill all the heart, with (ove «f Him . Who made the world so fair, 5 And whether war be’somefimes a . right, war be alway wrong. a. And cp nether victory be prooftne smalt against the. strong— m

We turn us frornthe! toil and trad© and busy ways of) men , . To strew their low green shelter tents with bjlossoms once agaiq,. This .army of outs soldiers, In their tone, last rendezvous, , i Where sleeping sentrids give po sign t tne watches ttlro ‘-

nSfdtedte ChrUffy; man for man, „ who (ayem dear life downwhateo his color—blue or gray or Simple Island brown; lhen in this silent camping ground, ®e tarry, comforted. Ana bush our heartaches, knowing ae'the glory of our dead, land was kind that signed for shoes* 01 advancement and release at m*y e t, e a r fitness. beauteous wers that tender hand* let fall* to the utmost In His lovfe. ipreme and over all.