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    Memorial Day and Other Verse
    Memorial Day and Other Verse
    Memorial Day and Other Verse
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    Memorial Day and Other Verse

    By Helen Leah Reed

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Memorial Day and Other Verse - Helen Leah Reed

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      Title: Memorial Day and Other Verse

      Author: Helen Leah Reed

      Release Date: May 18, 2011 [EBook #36153]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIAL DAY AND OTHER VERSE ***

      Produced by Heather Clark, David E. Brown, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      book was produced from scanned images of public domain

      material from the Google Print project.)

      MEMORIAL DAY

      AND OTHER VERSE

      (ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED)

      BY

      HELEN LEAH REED

      AUTHOR OF SERBIA; A SKETCH

      NAPOLEON'S YOUNG NEIGHBOR

      THE BRENDA SERIES, ETC.

      DE WOLFE AND FISKE CO.

      20 FRANKLIN ST.

      BOSTON

      COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY

      HELEN LEAH REED

      Entered at Stationers' Hall

      This book is sold for the benefit of work for blinded soldiers

      THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS

      NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

      TO THE MEMORY OF

      THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

      SOLDIER, SCHOLAR, FRIEND

      The author thanks the editors of the following publications for the right to reprint certain poems of hers that they first published:

      Scribner's Magazine, Horace III-29. Collier's Weekly, Horace I-14. Poet Lore, Horace I-11. Chicago Interocean, The Fading Vision. The Christian Union, Jack Frost and the Flowers. New York Sun, The Rivals. Metropolitan Magazine, Strength Renewed. Christian Endeavor World, Town and Country. Boston Transcript, Summer in London; His Monument; Memorial Day. Boston Herald, The Cry of the Women. Ladies' Home Journal, The Christmas Letter. Woman's Home Companion, Frightened. The Delineator, The Victim; A Modern Grandmother. The Youth's Companion, A Curiosity.

      CONTENTS

      PATRIOTIC AND SERIOUS

      MEMORIAL DAY

      No warrior he, a village lad,

      needing nor words nor other prod

      To point his duty; he was glad

      to tread the path his fathers trod.

      Week days he worked in wood and field;

      with homely joys he decked his life;

      The sword of hate he would not wield,

      nor take a part in cankering strife.

      On Sunday in the little choir

      he sang of Peace and brotherly love,

      And as his thoughts soared higher and higher,

      they reached unmeasured heights above.

      A cry for Freedom rent the Land—

      "Our Country calls, come, come, 'tis War;

      Together let us firmly stand;"

      he answered, though his heart beat sore

      At leaving home, and kin, and one

      in whose fond eyes too late he read

      That life for her had but begun

      with the farewells he sadly said.

      A half a century has passed—

      and more—since all those myriads fell;

      For he was one of those who cast

      sweet life into a Battle's hell.

      The village has become a town,

      brick buildings the old graveyard gird;

      Of him who fought not for renown,

      no one now hears a spoken word,

      But on the Monument his name

      in gold is lettered with the rest.

      Without a sordid thought of fame

      he to his Country gave his best.

      Strew

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