Show pit 4 V V A 4 L 71 1 0 1104 to it of k aw 4 W we ahoi now walk 69 th shining streets of life and quaff the win wino of friendships blessedness blett edner who know the final of success who feel the bliss of retting resting after trite strife mell we forget those troop troops of foolish wic wise love parlo ned lado who purchased thi this our joy with youth youths fine fi ne gold to whom life wa was a toy clorious LL those who have vii sited tin the ak ALL battlefield of gettysburg know its fascination first RS one drives about the forty quare square miles of battlefield tits ht interest ie Is in la the monuments the beautiful marken and statues erected by the vartoul variO ull states of uc the I 1 nion in memory inci nory of their dead on this battlefield ihen tho th ei ex tent of the field impresses one and it t endeavors eude avora to reconstruct the battle lines 0 of f tha the union and troops A cloud pop d thoi th hollow nela the rho gathering gath erinc battle a am ky shield athwart the th bloom the th flatbed flashed 1 and th through rough the th cloud clou d moms ho daha slash ned and fr in the th height the th pealed amov the bayonets bay mixed and crossel jaw ahw a gray giganti khuat through the battle cloud receding le ceding nd heard the tempest tern peet loud death cry of a nation laatt aven better than Thomp thompson sons a poem doe does bret Ili artes john allunis of gettysburg Getty burg paint the lecture i st of the battle or the th right terrible and it a aki a isid for hout hours the th heady fight bill holes thundered hund cred the battry battery i a double Di tor for mn men to tc face left where now the while on the th grates undulate to like lah the th living wa waves lyndull dy u nc essing apt PI ahal hat all thai that apt pt to the pit pits the johnnies John nl hound jp up hot shot plowed the up upland land gladen 1 reaped with blade sown with bullet bullets uttered fences her here and thera in the air ir od tossed their andrare and bire tripped stripped treen mero er the ne very and then abo aboe e tt tte e roar of battle the ie immortal words the brave men living and dead who struggled here haie ae consecrated it far ahoe our pour poor to add or detract the world power will little note cor nor lone long remember reni rem amber enber but it can never for here w what hat we gay say what they did here surely the sight of thia this battlefield and of valley nalley irge of lexington I 1 ex inton of ticonderoga should help in the mat mak ing of good americans I 1 ta ot a tai YA ft m ai ft ni ft patriotic lenon lesson ae As long ns as the graves of our soldier dead are so cherished cherle hed by tle the nation aa to laam ti a day net set apart for their decoration in a spirit of pro proper per gratitude be little fear need there anil and reference ree rence fur for the counter I 1 that a life spent pent in 11 in 04 ft aft 0 the spirit of W 61 I 1 P 1 S 4 4 f I 1 charlei charles S stone tifer fifer and george R merrill drummer member members of the ame same fife fire and drum corpe corps in thi civil 1 war till still whooping it ill up on an th the ISMS an I 1 instruments they both live 11 ve in boston nd are verity nine year years of iga age ith which quick pm to gain t info prize god of peace let not this heart wound hel hell reverent memory stir clr our still a soul may we be not so 10 brutal as a to fel feel no thought for thoe those who from the th heathen stole the prise prize they lusted for orthe forthe the round earth a weal I 1 way may we remember thoe those who filling wiling reached their goal spot forever famous 04 Is 4 A 1 k on t on november 19 1863 president dent lincoln tood stood on th of gettysburg juit just where the th of this thi national monument rises on this a pot ol 01 the great emancipator made hip ahli im immortal mortal speech kt oft iq 04 ica d 0 ci ta proud and unafraid 1 through the ithe year years the borton boston folk last year were dl die posed to weep at what they thought a pathetic spectacle aa its they saw the splendid rearguard of tho the rand grand amy marching to in pouring rain uli theli thell streets in point ci of f fact the kit list shinji thin these boy boys of civil war daas da want ii is sympathy ym pathy they do not belong to the sob ob stuff bri brigade gaide like their southern antagonists they were ere men from fruin the crown crowns of their heads to the bottom ot 01 their feet and they till still on proud and unafraid to the lait last rork delvous with death sas the haiti built more sun SUU splendid old men arc are th ese on both sides of maon and dizon dixon s line army life did not enfeeble them perhaps it they had bad not marched so much in auth they would not have been 50 0 o hale and hearty bearty now at an as ao ahen vo inott men must do their marri hing in ti rocking chair if they have been ho tor for dunate aa as to live so long three cheer cheers and three times tor for these sturdy survivors of both grand arinow they are fire of 0 the rait salt that never loses its it savor onie some potent magician of life sprinkle 0 with the elixir of youth and set tile them before us in the tile radi radiant alit nail and spiel jid did manhood that was theirs in the we wa would the picked corpa corps of any of the present rival khelu in daunch Jaunt liM courage in unselfish doy devotion to prin ciplet of buch sucil are the eternal lint doms of spiritual glory of such the human sub sublimity linal ty that fure voel like the stars leuon lesson of memorial duke et decorum est pro mori sweet and proper th no n it is to die for or one s country tins reft I 1 19 the eternal epitaph of the hero dea deal t great as ele elat in arlington a 9 where but the sweetest and bot tim to die for one a 9 country I 1 is when lle life bak been fulfilled and land the fruits of the task are ripe for the ot of and 1 that granary of ideal we call the nation memorial day Is a day of expert ence it ie is a good thing wrig to t 1 te ful of the past better to camj from it IL detroit new |