The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-05-09


Above a hundred battlefields
They whisper evermore.
I8-WEsT VIRGINIA.
/ bring II treasures many,
On lonely mountain stored,
Remembering the Kanawha,
The graves at Carrick's Ford.
I4-NORTH CAROLINA.
/ bring the snowy blossoms
From fair Cardinals strand,
For sunken fleets at ocean
And shadowy hosts on land.
I5-SoUTH CAROLINA.
bring tribute tender
To lay above the brave,
Whose shrouded forms are molderiI
In many Southern grave.
16-GEoRGIA.
bring the fadeless ivy,
The starry immortelle,
For those who stormed Mt. Lookou
And al Resaca fell.
l7-ALABAMA.
bring the flowers golden
From many Southern plain,
For those no trump shall waken
Until they rise again.
1s-FLoRIDA.
l bring the splendid beauty
OF tropic-tinted bloom,
For those their last sleep taking
Within the tangled gloom.
I9-oHI0.
/ bring the Buckeye blossoms,
Remembering Sheridan
And those who fought his battles
Along the Rapidan.
2O-INDIANA.
] bring for Morton's heroes
The lily and the rose
Alas, that time shall never
Their resting-place disclose.
21-ILLINOIS.
bring for Abraham Lincoln
And many thousand more,
The tenderest oblations
That loyal hearts outpour.
22-MICHIGAN.
l bring for Clusters legions
And ali the martial line,
The sprays of stately cedar,
The Understanding pine.
2S-WIsCoNsIN.
/ bring with heart of freedom
The wealth of wood and plain,
For those who bore our standard
And meier returned again.
24-KENTUCKY.
bring the sweet blue grasses,
The harebells nodding low;
And DER the unmarked legionS
A leWeled mantle throw.
25-MIssoURI.
bring the stately peony,
a symbol true and grand
OF those who fell with Lyon,
To save our own dear land.
26-IowA.
bring the prairie blossoms,
So wondrous and so fair,
For Shiloh and Fort Donelson,
And all our loved ones there.
27-MINNESoTA.
bring the rare wild flowers
From many wide estate,
For those who died To make uS
A Union strong and great.
2s-NEBRAsKA.
bring in proud profusion
The treasures of the plain,
To circle round our heroes
A loving flower chain.
29-KANsAs.
l bring from sunny Kansas,
The land of old John Brown,
The sunhower and the poppy,
Earth's royal sons to crown.
SO-MISSISSIPPI.
/ bring from lands historic,
The sad Sultana knew,
The rarest Southern flowers,
Remembering her crew.
S1-LOUISIANA.
I bring the proud palmetto
And flowers fair and tail,
To smile with tears of pity
Above the graves of all.
82-ARKANsAs.
l bring of blossoms many
And strew them once again,
Remembering Red River
And Island Number Ten.
88-TEXAs.
bring the waier-liIy
That broods above the dead
In river-beud aud bayou,
No Drawer ever led.
84-TENNEssEE.
| bring from mountains rocky
A Thousand thousand flowers;
The heroes of the Cumberland
Command these gifts of ours.
85-NEvADA.
bring from sunsets splendid
The jeweled buds of Spring;
The martyrs of Port Hudson,
Be these the men we sing.
S6-CALIFoRNIA
l bring with arms full laden
From California's strand
The wreaths for Appomattux
Ane strew with lavish hands.
s7-oREGoN.
bring In all the glory
OF Mays bewildering smile,
The flowers for the prisons
OF Libby and Belle Isle.
8s-MoNTANA.
/ bring the garnered beauty
OF many lands to-day,
For fathers and for brothers
So early passed away.
S9-NORTH DAKOTA.
bring the buds unfolding,
The types so early fled,
OF hearts in anguish breaking
Above the sacred dead
4O-SoUTH DAKOTA.
bring loves odorous offerings
For Grant, the man of peace,
And the heroes of his armies
God give of such increase.
A1--WASHINGToN.
bring my choicest garlands
For mother and for wife;
And our dear Army Nurses
Who faced the cruel strife.
42-CoLoRADo.
bring from mountains hoary,
From crevices of SNOW,
The rarest flowers that blossom,
Because we loved them SO.