Show w ahw af t dap 1 1 1 4 B pilotr SF t amt X t shi iw it K HADES some of tho the of at thil this day aro not only triumphant y but joyful not ah of those with whom e once stood shoulder to shoulder not nil 1111 of those whom e once 1004 and revered aro gone on ott this day wd still meet our companions in tho tile fracz freely ing winter blou aca and in those dreadful eummer summer marches hero here 0 or cry ery faculty of the soul seemed to 0 d dopart one ont after another leaving only a dumb animal power to bet set tho the 0 teeth toot and to persist a blind balloff that somewhere and at last there vaa was rou root and water when wo va thus when wo we d dc honor to the dead in tonna terms that musli buet sometimes embrace tho living 0 a 4 do attribute not deceive ourselves wo we attrib attribute ut no special merit to ft tt man trian for having served when all were serving we ivd know ti bat at if the armies of our wait wa did anything worth remembering tha credit belongs rot mainly to the tire andt visuals who did 4 but to average hu but man nature wo we also al also know very well all thit it wo we cannot ilvo live in association with the past aldno and we admit thai tho if we would bs ba worthy of the past wt we must find now holds folds for action or a r thought and make ma ko for ourselves new nev careers but nevertheless tho genor atlon that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience through our great good fortune in our youth our hearts were touched with tiro fire it was given to us to learn at tho the outset that life Is a profound and passions passion 4 ato ate thing whilo while we are permitted to scorn nothing but indifference and ana do not pretend to undervalue the worldly rewards of ambition we haye have seen with our own eyes beyond and above tho the gold fields the snowy heights ot of honor anait Is for us to bear the report to those who como come after us but above all wo we have learned that whether a man accepts from for tubie her spade and will look took downward and dig or from aspiration tier bar axe and cord card and will scale scalo tire fee ice tho the one and alid only success which it 11 his to command Is to bring to bam 1 work a mighty heart such hearts ah me how mandt were stilled 20 years ago and to ns TU who remain behind Is left this day ot memories every year in the fuu tide of spring at the height of th the symphony of flowers and love an and 1 alfo cpru comes a pause and through gla the silence wo 0 o hear tho the lonely pipe of death year after year lovers wandering under the apple boughs and through the clover and deep grass are with sudden tears as they see black veiled stealing through the morning to a sold soldier leen grave year after year the comrades ot of the dead follow with public honor procession and commemorative flags flag and funeral march honor bonor and grief from us who stand almost alone and have seen the best and noblest tit our generation pass away nut but grif Is not the end of all I 1 seem to bear the flin ern march bo ie come a paean I 1 sets ho the forget the moving banners of a bidden hidden column our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life not riot death of at life to which in their youth they ther lent tent the passion and glory of the pring spring i |