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Show Decoration Day. Next Wednesday tho citizons of Salt Lake will decorate the graves of the soldiers who are buried in this vicinity. It ia to be hoped that the spirit o! the occasion may be similar to that exhibited by the people nl Vickaburg, Miss., on the let of May, when the following poem was recited by Miss Hunt, the poetess: Ours the fate of the vanqu:shod, Whose beariachea never cease; nurs the tears, Rebels and fears Thoira the eternal peace. Angor they dropped forever With thepasint( burden of breath; The Blue and the Gray Aro alike to-day In the colclo-s land of death. Aud the living wtio wore the Blue May brine to the aleepers flowers, For the Blue aud the Gray are friend; to-day In a happier land than ourj. |