Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-17
JUNE.

Read at Southwestern WIS. Veterans Reunion
Mineral Point, June sth, 1923.
IT'S June why strive. In tangiing words,
Or smoothly fitting phrase,
To speak Of June, that rare, sweet month,
And all her winsome waysl
Hers Is the glory Of the leaf.
The beauty OF the flower;
Hers, too, the promise Of the vine,
And autumn's coming dover.
Beneath the blue OF skies serene
The rill and river meet;
And stars above the stars below
Ia placid waters greet.
Aurora, rosy fingered maid,
Draws back the veil Of night
The tuneful son OF myriad birds
Gives welcome to the light.
why sing Of June when June is here,
Herself the sweetest singer?
She gives as each a thousand songs
For one that we may bring her
We hear her voice, we feel her touch,
Forgotten care and pain.
Like winters snow our Ills are fed,
aud life is young again.
But June hath memories ~ well;
The spnnging grain, the iIower-decke6 sod,
Hide winding paths OF bitterness.
Where sorrows fect have trod.
We clasp each other by the hand,
And loving glance meets loving eyes
The present fades aud frora the past,
20, other scenes ana shapes arise.
The birds sweet tryl upon the bOugk
Becomes the bugle call Of war;
The drowning SQUAD of busy bees,
The tramp OF nerching feet afar.
For June bath known the battles shock,
when fucmcn brave brave foenen meet;
HATH felt the ssERing roar and rock
Of deadly onslaught and retreat
And June hath heard the soldiers.moau,
Che whispered prayer of dying men;
Her kiss hathsofty closed the eyes
which ne'er should look on home again.
And June hsth lowered rouna about
The close sud sitting prison pen,
where hunglring, thirsting Cor her look,
Lay dyim~scores Of valiant men.
Oh! wind OF June. so passing s-gect,
Which sGftly blows upon ny cheek,
what taxes OF woe thou couldst repeat
what antold anguish tboUtnightst speak,
But kindly nature hastes tGteal
Her married and battle-trcdden telds
The prrs!ous spot where heroes fell,
with warm and tender teach she shields
How tsen. with hearts all.30ttled-scarred,
Hearts which the deePestRrief have knoWG,
Hears which gave all inlayal love,
Onco more shall they reclaim their own
III. f,, ,,r.ss All ,sst,r t ,r,,,zy,, t1o
OF the Hercest battles rolled, ling hesrt
SO there springs from tho crushed and bleed
New Rraces manifold; and care
And ho SOU which was,spent with sorrow
les chorus all iangiod aud out of tune.
Cosne5 bhc6 to a state more fresh and fair
Meath the softer skies of a later June.
Ans the land We love watch was torn ans gent
By passion and wars alarms,
Hath hidden the scars OF the ioug-gone scar.
with trcsher and sweetcr charms.
Twas morn in Junewhen the knight o. OLD
A clad in his gilded,mail
Sc, forth from his castle, grim and cold,
no search for the Hoiy Grail,
80 little he knew OF -deprize he sought
That he toiled for weary years,
Aud came again 70 his castle gate,
,Tnknown. IN rags AMI tears.
sog-ned
And there from the bfggar he once had
when clad In h, unscarred mail,
he learned that he lett az his castle gate
The sought-for HolyGail
sohoarts which have learned the lesson a. lif
To the present are never blind
But find as they beUdto anothers need,
The good for themselves designed.
Aue thus when veterans Scared aud brG-c
In peace OF the past commune.
Wherever they are, ini cart and In land
They find perpetual June.
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