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Show DEATH BUT ADDS A LUSTER TO A SOLDIER'S1 FAME The drums still thunder and tho fifes sound clear; Tho tattered Hags wave splondldly on ;igh. You say: Tho ranks grow thinner year by year. And miss n greybcnul with a steaming steam-ing eye. You watch them march, and bless each hallowed head, And wish that one wore there whom you might namo; Why, conirado, don't glvo way. Tho ho bo dead Death adds a luster to nbravu man's famo. A tlmo there wns when you and ho were young; Twos long ago, my friend, wo must allow, You think of hand clasps, of ho songs he sung, And so you miss tho volca nil ullcut now. Perliapu you both were suitors for a hand, Of ono who loved, and vanished like a flamo. , There, comrndo, don't glvo way. Just understand Death adds a luster to a bravo man's fame. You miss the man who proved to true and brave, Whllu fighting that n nation might bo freo; But think of this: Thoro never was a gravo Could hold tlio spirit. In Uod's tuo- dom, he, Afar from earthly caro, beyond all blamo, Comrado, your friend shall lovo you . all the moro Death adds a luBter to a bravo man's fame. In years to corao, In story and In song, Eyes shall grow moist abovo our soldiers' sol-diers' deeds; Oh, noblo ho to whom his country's wrong Becomes his own, although his own huart bleeds! Oh, noblo lie who In thoso darker days, Conceived but cowardice tho only shume; Who fearless, trod tho fateful bloody ways-Death ways-Death adds a luster to a brave man's famo. Your friend was bravo, was noblo; o'en ns these, Whoso shuffling limbs onco leaped. to danger's throno; Who laughed at hellish war's dlscor- dances, And fought to honor's credit nnd their own. Come, comrndo, cheer themr Cheor th era man and man; Weep If you will, wo honor you tho eamo, But think not ho Is lost, your veteran-Death adds n luster .to a brave man's fa'mot H, "VY Sutherland.. |