Newark post., 1911-05-24

Didli you, h'PN VI al SA'' 1N"''S'',
Make her future sure.
-Eve,yn Fletcher.
Decoration Day
Forget? No, never, marches long;
The Hospital and camp;
The stirring thrill OF ti.e and drum;
The hurried onward tramp;
The silent bivouac meath the stars;
The night before the fight;
Forget the lone y picket line?
The bullets whisr.ing fight?
Slow, shuff1ing are the hating steps
That strive along the route;
And dim the eyes that answer back
To comrades mastering out.
The roll is cal ed. Who answers now?
On sick leave, or away?
On furloughs to the Better Land?
Promoted, did you say?
0 sentinels on lofty heights,
Beyond the tides that swell.
Our dul! ears seem to hear you call
To us that all is wei.
"Attention company! Fail in!'
Passing the Ides OF May,
Brothers OF Gray and Blue mark
timeW
'Iis Decoration Day.
Then gently .et the blossoms fall.
Lights our!'' At last "Retreatp'
'The countersign?" A little s.eep.
AT Reveil,e we'll meet
Arthur Ward. Seaford, n. i.
(Thoughts gathered from speeches
made on former Memorial Days.)
"No more shall the war cry sever,
Or widening rivers be red;
Our anger is banished forever.
When are laure ed the graves Of Our
dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day
Love and tears for the Blue.
Tears and love for the Gray"
I'VE honor our heroic and patriotic
dead by being rue men, as rue men by
painfully fighting the battles if our
day as they fought the battles Of their
day"
With no jealousies to indu sc and no
envy to crafty, we seek to draw les
son from the past that shall be to our
future beacon and guide. To the
sleeping martyrs, whose graves billow
every battlefield, it matters little what
we may now say or do. Our render
offerings OF affection vii be lost upon
their mounds, and the sweet aroma OF
our scented flowers be uselessly ,x-
ha ed to air, save as we revive our faith
in The doctrines which they delended,
and our zeal for the cause in which
they died.
when the war began thousands OF
young men, the flower Of American
youth, were cooking out OF college halls
upon a luture bright with professional
honors. They flung books aside a.lu
seized rifles. They became 'History's
Graduates. Hundreds OF thousands
of young Americans were anticipating
luture replete with the profits and
emo umens which reward bus ness, gen.
ius and in egrity Straightway they
abandoned cherished life plans in order
to defend free institutions"
Soldiers OF the Republic, the battles
Of the present are identIca with the
battles OF the past. The form OF w.r-
rare only is changed. The moral CON
ficts wagcd in our nation are as truly
battles as were the conflicts OF Gettys-
burg and Lookout Mountain"
"The Ugh, that shines from a pat
riots grave is a pure and hey ligh. +,
and whie we are guided by il we sha !
never go into the paths OF treason and
rebe lion. Lei that light illuminate
our pathway, and the nob'e example
of the dead strengthen our love Of
country and devo ion to duty When
patriotism in the hearts OF the peope
is dead, all is lost 1t j she life-blood
and sou! OF the national existence. the
animating fire which makes a peop.e
great and their history grand and
beauii4ul.
when we COX at our vast coun-
try with all its resources OF wealth and
power, at our system OF free govern
menr with all the appliances for fur
ther advancement in greatness and in
teliigence, reaching as il does from
ocean TO ocean, with its fields and
mines and streams, its hi Is and valleys
smiling in the sunlight OF freedom, in
vitjng the poor and oppressed o. all
lands to come and occupy them, 10
plow and reap, TO build and grow, and
be happy--when we look at al this and
think what we would have been had
the rebellion proved sue ess, we feel
that our comrades did not die in vain,
and we feel that This is but small
token, indeed, of the owe that we
ought to show their memories. What
tender emotions are awakened today
in our minds as we bend over the sill
ent. yet eloquenc mounds where the
American soldier sleeps his last sleep.