Memorial Day Annual1906 - Memorial Day |
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... tear ; as well might stop the tide Of ceaseless , rolling ocean , just as well , As stop those tears which fast and faster fell . Then lo ! by mutual sympathy there rose A shout tremendous , forgetting they were foes ; A simultaneous ...
... tear ; as well might stop the tide Of ceaseless , rolling ocean , just as well , As stop those tears which fast and faster fell . Then lo ! by mutual sympathy there rose A shout tremendous , forgetting they were foes ; A simultaneous ...
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... tear , To see the soldiers ' graves all spread with flowers , While grandpa's cannot have one rose of ours . So if some little Southern girl should know A nameless grave where never blossoms grow , I'd love her so , if there some ...
... tear , To see the soldiers ' graves all spread with flowers , While grandpa's cannot have one rose of ours . So if some little Southern girl should know A nameless grave where never blossoms grow , I'd love her so , if there some ...
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... tears . Nay , don't forget the mothers - the mothers of our men , Who see them go and never know that they'll come back aga That give them to their country to battle and to die , Because the bugles call them and the starry banners fly ...
... tears . Nay , don't forget the mothers - the mothers of our men , Who see them go and never know that they'll come back aga That give them to their country to battle and to die , Because the bugles call them and the starry banners fly ...
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... tear Fall , for her sake , on Stonewall's bier . Over Barbara Frietchie's grave , Flag of freedom and union , wave ! Peace and order and beauty draw Round thy symbol of light and law ; And ever the stars above looked down On thy stars ...
... tear Fall , for her sake , on Stonewall's bier . Over Barbara Frietchie's grave , Flag of freedom and union , wave ! Peace and order and beauty draw Round thy symbol of light and law ; And ever the stars above looked down On thy stars ...
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... tears that are welling , And gathers his gun closer up to its place , As if to keep down the heart - swelling . He passes the fountain , the blasted pine - tree , - The footstep is lagging and weary ; Yet onward he goes , through the ...
... tears that are welling , And gathers his gun closer up to its place , As if to keep down the heart - swelling . He passes the fountain , the blasted pine - tree , - The footstep is lagging and weary ; Yet onward he goes , through the ...
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Page 49 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 64 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 51 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 63 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 68 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 67 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 57 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 62 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 37 - And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,