Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-08-04

cemetery for tho purpose Of placing flowers on
the graves OF thirty Confcdcrates. Their pro
Cress was stopped by bayOncts, and they were
not allowed - perform thcir mission OF love
During the night = high wind arose. and In th'
morning all the floral offerings that had beGi
placed the day before upon the Federal grave
were found piled upon the mounds under
which rested the thirty COnfeder0tcs. Wha
mon had denied nature had granted: nay. has
taken into her own hands 10 perform.l
The broken column. reared In air
To him who made our country great.
Can almost rest Its shadow where
The victims OF Il long despair
In long, long ranks of death await
The last, loud trump, the Judgment sun.
Which come for nll, and soon or late
VIII come FOR those ~ Arlington.
In that vast sepulchre repose
Ten thousands rcapcd from many fray;
The men in Blue who once uprose
In battle front TO smite their foes
The Spartan bands who wore tho Gray.
The combat o'or the death hug done.
IL summer blaze or winter SHOWS,
They keep the truce al Arlington.
and almost lost IN myriad graves
o! those who gained tn unequal iiSht,
Arc mounds that hide Confederate braves
Who lccll not how the north wind raves
N dazzling day OF dimmost night,
Ger those who los; and those who won.
Death holds no parl,y which was right
Jehovah judges Arlington.
The doad had rest; the dovo OF peace
BroodCd Ger both with equal wings,
To both mad como that great surce"se'
The last omnipotaEt release
From I'll the worlds dclirlous st.ngs,
TO buglc deaf end signal gun,
They slept, like heroes OF old Greoco,
beneath tie glebe at Arlington
And in the springs bcniguHnt reign,
The sweet May woke hex harp OF pines.
Teaching her choir a thrilling strain
UfiubiIco to land and main.
Sine danced in emerald down the lines
nenying largess bright 10 none,
she saw no difference in the signs
That told who slept ~ Arlington.
She gave her grasses and her showers
To al! alike who dreamed In dust;
Her song-birds woye their dainty bowers
Amid the Jasmine buds and flowers,
And pipod with an impartial trust.
Waits of the cir and liberal sunl
Their guiIeless glocs were kind and just
To friend and foo ut Arlington.
And mid the generous spring thorc came
Some women OF the land who stroVo
70 mako this funeral Held ot funo
Glad as the May gods altar llamc,
With rosy wreaths % mutual love.
Unmiudful who had lost OF won,
They scoTned the JargOn OF name
No North, no South At Arlington.
between their pIous thought and God
stood !iIcs of mon with brutal steel,
The garlands placed on Rebel sod
We're trampled IN the common clod'
TO die beneath the hircl!ns's heel
Facing this triumph Of tho liun,
our smoky Caesar gave no nod
To keep The peace at Arl:nglo"
Jehovah Judged, ahashag man,
For IN the y:Giis of iAc Night
!;s mighty storn-evcugcrs ran
Together in one choral elan,
Fobul;,ug wrong, rcwarding riSht'
vlucl,!ng the wrcaths frOIn those who won
The tempest ilcaycd them dcwy-brlght
On Rub,. sraycs NJ Arlington.
And when the moon came, young ana mir
HrlInrul Of bushes ripe and rcd,
ISueo .do,p Ia sly-sCut roses thcro,
Nature began her earliest prayer
Above triumphau: southern dead.
So lu the dark end IN the sun
Our cause survives the tyrant's trend
md sleeps 20 wake at Arlington.