Show o The Graves of Our Heroes The Jle one was shot in the East by the sea the other was shot by the sea in the West and divided as far and farther in their graves graves and and the sympathies they excite excIte are are the noble heroes whose brave deeds we now commemorate But what of those who fell There is no language to express s the debt we owe the love w we bear to all the dead who died for us Words are but barren sounds We can but stand beside their graves and in the hush and silence feel what speech has never told Away A way from the noise and bustle of our greatest American city over-looking over the majestic Hudson lie the remains of the greatest general of his age our immortal Grant Gran t. t Chicago desired the honor of being his last resting place but her wish was not granted and for a long time her citizens asked with perhaps a shadow of envy Where is the exquisite monument monument monument ment you promised to erect if you should have the honor of f his burial place Wedo Wedo We Wedo do not see it we see only a vault the like of which exist by thousands in alli all allour allour i our cemeteries Will you never give to our hero his due Will you give to the greatest general that ev ever r lived no tribute of your appreciation This and more did the people of Chicago say and their indignation was just He rightly deserved deserved deserved de de- served the mighty monument t which h now though late is erected as a reward for his valorous deeds But even without this he was ci- ci There beats for him in the hearts of his countrymen many a throb of love His grave is strewn with flowers by the pure hands o of children and gazed at atwith atwith with silent veneration by his comrades He is dead but his tomb an and l his life re re- main His life a noble example of patriotism and courage a career thoroughly successful showing what a aman aman aman man may may po do with ith the the life G God d h has s given him 1 Now let us turn turn f from the grave where the laurels of victory repose t to the quiet chapel of Washington College t tl the e grave of Robert E. E Lee Jee who fought as he thought for the rights of his people But how can fleeting words of human praise gild the record of our heroes' heroes glory Now that the bitterness of war has past away this man has become appreciated appreciated appreciated ap ap- even by the sternest of his former enemies He had no triumph to end his hi's fight fighting ng His energy his firm purpose ended in defeat Under the laurel the Blue Under the willow the Gray These lines represented the spirit of men and women at the close of the war Shall the they represent the feeling of us American citizens thirty years after No Each hero must sleep serenely on the field where he fell in a cause sacred to liberty and the rights of mankind Then Then Then- Scatter your flowers alike today Over the graves of the Blue and Gray Time has is healed all the Nations Nation's scars Peace has hushed all the noise noise of wars And North and South and East and West There beats but on ond ona heart in in the Nations Nation's breast G. G M. M R. R |