Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-05-03 | Page 4 | Grand Army of the Republic

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Day by day their ranks are thinning, one bv one they disappear. And at each succeeding rollcall, fewer voices answer, "Here!" Still their regiments are marching many . march with noiseless tread, . Ahd no bugles sound "assembly". In the bivouac of the dead. Glorious tales of gallaht service echo still on every hand; . Charge and siege and bitter hardship-comrades hardship-comrades lost on sea and land. Now a reunited nation Joins to bless the honored dead, . . Though forgetful of the living who have likewise fought and bled. Hats ate reverently lifted to the heroes j lying here; . - . Lift them td the Jiving heroes-haU them all with cheer on cheer. Not for long will they be with us; Boon each regiment will be Tented here beneath the blossoms of. the land It helped to free. But today the drums are muffled and the flag at half-mast waves. Keeping green dead heroes' memories as the grass above their graves. ' ' fetlll another weary winter Shrouded in , the snow they lay; , Now we bring thenj crowns and garlands of the loveliest blooms of May, Let them rest lrf honored slumber; while , their praise, from shore to shore. Eighty million throats are swelling we are free forevermore! Elsie Florence Fay In Success Magaslne. " i , - s