Show THE THREE BROTHERS BY WILLIAM WILLIA 11 WIRT WHITE I 1 WHITS RIVER the nations birthday birth day came the starry F flag la kissed by the morning bre bredes br ees to the sun flung out its folds the baoming bo oming gu gun spoke po e loud the peoples loyal heart and proud hew heio rose the voice of edward youngest son he speaks to freemen on the natal day when our foi s n added libei ty in that bum buin ho he thrills those listening bohills aeouls he does docs not hear this sound of sti ire that rolls from the far battle plain where soldiers lie die I 1 a II 11 VICKSBURG the nations birthday oer a vanquished foe our aimy marches into Vicks burgs sheets victorious victoriou sound sounding iii grandest gian dest aroni ning the memory of all battle pain high the strong pulse of loyal triumph beats there william eldest brother rode in pi ide one of the in army of the west his 3 youngest biot blo hurb therb voice he does docs not hear bear bealis of rill fill his happy ear and pado aud and hope sv ollin his happy bocast III gettysburg K th baril birthday ayda ay da ta fc reuf F a af no rie or blood 1 wd arid agal sli eon t am gidumal g 1 A nd A ir i 4 1 T of gett gettysburg yol burg out its so soldier laii dead and AN bounded fuw the tears those thos 1 e brave men shed though agony dwelt burning bauming in in each i v aund at the same hour E dwaide Edw aids voice arose at tho same hour N hen william with h his is men marched into Vic vicksburg isburg soldiers ahnelt in prayer above a mound of eaith balth their idol calmly there slept the deep sleep that wakens not again noah brother third that slept the 8 sleep ae e 1 1 I in Gettys burgs ficici fl fight he be fighting fell leading his chige and shouting leally men I 1 while stamn sti aking home for native land again and aad god shuck his young life s parting in knell the above lines ate aie based on a coincidence which is portrayed in ill tile three parts of the poem the men alluded to are arc brothers of the lion T W felry of michigan who contributed ted to the recent northwestern fair |