Show poem p oem stilled E 1 11 e d I 1 str strife fe by the bow of the inland river whence the beets of iron have bed where the blades of the arve grav egrass quiver asleep are the ranks of the dead under the sod and the dew waiting the judgment days day under the one the blue under tinder the other the cray these in 10 the or djory those in the gloom of defeat all alf with the battle blood gore in the dusk of eternity meet meets under the sod and the dew waiting the judgment dement fu day under the laurel the blue under the willow the cray no more shall the war cry sever or the winding rivers be red they banish their asset anger forever when they laurel the graves craves of out our deada voder under the sod and the dew waiting the judgment day love and tears for the slue blue teats tears and love for the cray TIE first spring following the close T THE of the civil war found a group of southern women decorating the grines of the soldier dead they placed their floral tributes on all tile the graes gnu braes os regardless of the color of the uniform the file burled buried wen men wore that these mothers sisters and widows could remember the northern soldiers with the same tribute of love that they remembered their own dead brought about a feeling of tolerance lill all over the country this tittle little ceremony inspired the hie poet francis miles allies finch lo 10 0 write his poem tile the blue and the gray gras laler lailer it was set to music and the singing and reading of it did wore more to reestablish harmony armony li than any of tile lie ell out plans of reconciliation cli tation of tile diplomats tile the second spring alter after tile the war the northern women decorated tile lie graves of the southern men inen as well as the graves raves of their own dead in am jeneral general logan cow commanded mahale d all the soldiers graves to be de decorated t the same jear new york declared ired me marln liy a a legal holiday and state after fiill rith owed ived its example so one day toward the falter part of alay tile dead are and a just tribute Is paid to t ine morles since this day has lieen been largely responsible fur for harmony between tile north and south it Is also due ue to Us its that belles from the south and malics from tile I 1 north now gather in the same social cliques |