The National tribune., 1890-05-22


/ bring the victor's laurel
From many "a mountain hight,
Remembering all our heroes
Who persisted in the fight.
3-VERMoNT.
bring the freshest blossoms
In memory of one
Who sailed away at morning
And died at setting sun.
MASSACHUSETTS.
bring the rarest Jewels
That love has bTOoded DER,
Remembering Aniietam
And a hundred battles moro.
5-RHODE ISLAND.
bring the sweetest treasures
Both of the shore and sea,
For those who fell with Burnside
In hostile Tennessee.
6-CoNNECTICUT.
bring the fragrant lilies,
Aud through the tears and flames
My heart will still remember
The Army Of the James.
7-NEw YORK.
bring the sprays of myrtle,
Recalling ell the brave
Who on the Rappahannock
Gave up their lives to save.
s-PENNsYLyANIA.
bring the stateliest flowers
That on the mountains blow,
For those who fell at Gettysburg
So many years ago.
s-NEw JERSEY.
bring Of Mays bright garlands
And softly lay them down,
For those vino with Mcclellan
Won glorious Tenown.
1O-DELAwARE.
bring the honeysuei<le,
type of those who fell
Without prayer to speed them,
Without "A fond farewell.
I-MARYLAND.
l bring the oleanders
Aud place them with tear
Above the shrouded silence
OF many a lonely bier.
l2-vIRGINIA.
i bring the magnolias
That line Polouuac's shore;
Above a hundred batllefields
They whisper eyeTmoFe.
1s-wEsT VIRGINIA.
bring of treasures many,
On lonely mountain stored,
Remembering the Kanawha,
The gTaves At Carrick's Ford.
14-NoRTH CAROLINA.
bring the snowy blossoms
From fair Cardinals strand,
For sunken fleets at ocean
And shadowy hosts on land.
l5-soUTH CAROLINA.
bring tribute tender
To lay above the brave
Whose shrouded forms are moldering
In many Southern grave.
Is-GEoRGIA.
bring the fadeless ivy,
The starry immorteile,
For those who stormed Mt. Lookout
And at Resaca fell.
7-ALABAMA
bring the flowers golden
From mary a Southern plain
For those no trump shall waken
Until they rise again.
Is-FLoRIDA.
bring the splendid beauty
OF tropic-tntcd bloom,
For those their last sleep taking
Within the tangled gloom.
l9-oHIo.
brIngrthe 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
2i-HLINoIs.
bring for Abraham Lincoln
And many thousand more,
The tenderest oblAiions
That loyal hearts oulpour.
22-MICHIGAN.
bring for Clusters legioas
Aud nll the martial lne,
The sprays Of stately cedar,
The VietorcrOwning pine.
2s-wIsCoNsIN.
bring with heart of freedom
The wealth of wood and plain,
For those who bore our standard
And ne'er returned again.
24-KENTUCKY.
bring the sweet blue grasses,
The hnTebells nOddinE low,
And DER the unmarked legiOnS
A ieweled mantle throw.
25-MssoURL
bring the stately peony,
A symbol true and grand
or those who fell with Lyon,
To save our own dear land.
2s-IowA.
bring the prairie blossoms,
So wondrous aud so fair,
For Shiloh aud Fort DOnelson,
And all our loved ones there.
2-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 profession
The treasures of the plain,
To circle round our heroes
A loving flower chain.
29-KANSAs.
bring from sunny Kansas.
The land of old John Brown.
The sunhower and the poppy,
Earth's royal sons to crown.
sO-MIssIsSIPPL
bring from lands historic,
The sad Sutana knew,
The raress Southern flowers,
Remembering her crew.
3l-LOUIsIANA.
bring the proud palmetto
And flowers fair and tall,
To smile with tears of pity
Above the graves of ali.
a2-ARKANSAs.
bring OF blossoms many
And strew them once again,
Remembering Red River
And Island Number Ten.
sa-TEXAs.
bring the wRter-lily
That broods above the dead
In river bend and bayou,
No Drawer ever led.