The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11
In the Goat Of Faded Gray" q. ".
Harris has described such a case.
He says:

In the Goat Of Faded Gray" q. W.
Harris has described such a case.
He says:
"A low hut rests in Lookout's shade,
As rots its moss-grown roof away,
While sundown's glories softly fade,
Closing another wear day.
The battles din is heard no more,
No more the hunted stand at bay,
The breezes through the lowly door
Swing mute a coat of faded gray,
A tattered relic of the fray,
A threadbare coat of faded gray.
'Tis hanging on the rough log wall,
Near to the foot of the widows bed,
By a white plume and a well-worn
His gift the happy morn they wed:
By the wee slip their lead child
The one they gave the name of May;
By her rag doll and pinafore-
A red-f1eck'd relic of the fray.
An armless coat Of faded gray.
But poor and patient, still she waits
On Gods good time to gently call
Her, too, within the jeweled gates;
And all she Graves is here to die
To part from these and pass away,
To join her love eternally
That wore that-The coat of gray,
The shell-torn relic of the fray,
Her soldiers coat of faded gray.
When I think of the countless wild
ows and orphans whose lives have
been robbed of love and support; when
[ think of their weary, anxious wait
inp for fhP return of the loved one
who never comes; when 1 think of
the tender loving wife through weary,
lonely months waiting, fearing, hoping
against hope and then giving way to
despair; when l think of the lonely
| years of toll and sorrow through
] which such are compelled to go; I
cannot help but hate war. 1 do not
try to help it. 1 teach my children
to hate it and to discourage it in every
way.
| When war must come, and when the
nation calls for men to protect Its
honor and preserve it's integrity, let
brave men go forth to battle in the sa-
cred cause of what they conceive to
be the right and let the world ap-
plaud. 1, too, will join in the ap-
plause. If the cause be a sufficiently
worthy one l will even respond upon
the field of battle as did my father
in the Confederate army. But when
l look into the faces of my little chill
dren and upon her whose tender love
has borne life's burdens and shared
life's joys with me, l am obliged to re-
membe that the price of my enlist
ment might be the ~orphanage of my
little ones and the widowhood of my
wife. And when l 1ook upon the
peaceful, happy homes of my neighbors
I know that life and love are just as
sweet to them as to me and mine and
that war might mean the breaking of
their hearts and the destruction of
their hopes. And SO l say, let's do
not have any more wars as long as it
is possible to promote the welfare of
humanity and to preserve human free
dom and human rights in any other
way.
1 give all honor to our Confeder-
ate dead. They were brave men and
sacrificed their lives for the right as
they saw the right and for the good
of their country, as they believed.
What a loss it was to our country
that they persisted in war! What sor-
row and suffering we have endured
because they fell! Let US cherish
their memory forever. Let us hand
their names down to childrens' chill
dren as worthy of all honor. Living
in the memory of their nobility of
character and their glory of achieve
ment, let us strive to make u w
lives supply in some easur what
the world lost because of their death.
How are the mighty fallen and per-
ished in battle"