Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-06-06
EmBfttered "a sea of years.

From tine mouths of wOndeuhul men.
But deepiin "a walled up womai's.
heart,
A woman THAT wOuld not yield,
But braveY, silently bore her part
: Lo there iis rthat battle field.
80, We with banners and BATTLE shot,
And soldiers ito shout and praise,
tell yon the kingfiest victories rthat
are fought
Are fought nm these sileut ways.
so, spotless woman I'M "a world 0f
sbamen
With splemtbid and sFient scorn,
Go back to God as white as you came,
The kingfiest warrior born. ~
And so, in all 'oqr soldier gatherings,
while we thimk and speak of what the
solJiers bore and pay them fitting hon-
or, let us remember THAT they were mot
all who acted 81 heroes part.
''These are NOT adj
Here by the wall
Is the grave of ONE who died in thewar,
Though her body hadn't wound or a
scar.
Her hope, her heart was broken. wfen
In a mass of men,
Her lover fell in pool of gore,
With the Flag he bore
Her life and love together fed
When he was dead.
Any violets left. girls2
Let them fall
Here by the wall.
''These are not all
Go back and call
The boys that carry the evergreen;
Here is grave you men haven't seen.
It's old man Browns.
His heart clean broke,
Most as If he was women-folk.
He had five sons-his wife was dead
Nothing could keep EN- to home, he
said
And every last one of The whole lot
Went and got shot
The old man hadn no grit, no pride
Jest up and died
Lay the evergreen softly down
Over the grave of old man Brown.
These are not all
Let some lilies fall
Here on this wee, small grave in tn,
shade.
I can remember the day we laid
| The captains baby in this green spot
The Captain, he was shot,
And some fool neighbor made haste t.
The captains widder the news, and
well,
| Down she went in faint-just fell
And it killed the baby. She lived on
Health and reason forever gone.
| oxy El1;no ba,,a
For the baby dear
| went to the war myself that year.
''Put roses here.
This grave is dear
She was my sister. The truest heart,
Always ready to do her part.
Gave up her son
When the first gun
Thundered at Sumter! She had bu
one,
And she died, when
With stronger men,
He starved to death in prison pen
The boy she had fed and clothed an
kissed,
And done for, so that he hardly miss
His father-dead when he was a child
She never smiled.
She loved red roses when he was small
Here let them fall.
We honor the soldiers, but they re nc
ALL
To the brave and noble-hearted me
and women, who gave up all for thei
country, the country owes more tina
it can ever pay. But pathetic and in
| -. s,k kn nE
and to praise the noble men and mol
Ter women of those great days, anothe
theme not inappropriate to such an OF
casion as this knocks at my heart an
at the door of my lips with a messag
for this hour. We rightly think {
and speak of what the Nation owes t
its gallant defenders. But do W
think as intelligently and speak as o.
ten and as plainly as we should as
what we old soldiers still owe OF
countryg
Statesman, yet the friend of truth
Of soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honor clear
He broke no promise, served no pr
vate end,
He sought no title, and betrayed 1
friend. "
Lincoln has long since assembled I
hig coronation. But the Nation fl
which in lavish love every good soldit
staked his all, still has claims toda
as them. Her problems are not all Sc
tied Her dangers are not all past. "
old soldiers, in common with all OF
= fellow citizens, but especially as sOlt
iers of the Union, are under bonds
our country. What do we who shar,
somewhat the peril and burden
; those years-what do we yet ow,
We hear much of what the COUNT
owes u.s. But we hear little-far Il
: little Of our own ever-abiding, eve
accruing obligation to our Countr
: What do we over
r 1t is our high privilege and dut,
p as soldiers for the Union, to magni
and glorify that Union; one Countr
I united and inseparable forever. v
e can do this by doing all in our pow
to make it in its citizenship. in
laws. in its administration, in all
social, moral and political condition
as perfectly conformable as possible
what Washington and Lincoln thel