Memorial Day: Aids for Its Proper Observance by the Schools of Wisconsin

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1914
 

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Страница 39 - Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore. While through the sounding sky Loud rings the Nation's cry, Union and Liberty! One Evermore!
Страница 75 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
Страница 64 - O CAPTAIN ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ; But O heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Страница 68 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Страница 31 - Pass in, Sanitary !" In such cheer it struggled on Till the battle front was won, Then the car, its journey done, Lo ! was stationary ; And where bullets whistling fly, Came the sadder fainter cry, " Help us, brothers, ere we die, — Save us, Sanitary !
Страница 59 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them
Страница 74 - Soldier and statesman, rarest unison ; High-poised example of great duties done Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn As life's indifferent gifts to all men born; Dumb for himself, unless it were to God, But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Tramping the snow to coral where they trod, Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content...
Страница 30 - HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?" Down the picket-guarded lane Rolled the comfort-laden wain, Cheered by shouts that shook the plain, Soldier-like and merry: Phrases such as camps may teach, Sabre-cuts of Saxon speech, Such as "Bully!
Страница 75 - But let not your homage to his memory end here. Think not to transfer to a tablet or a column the tribute which is due from yourselves. Just honor to Washington can only be rendered by observing his precepts and imitating his example. He has built his own monument. We and those who come after us, in successive generations, are its appointed, its privileged guardians. The wide-spread republic is the true monument to Washington. Maintain its independence. Uphold its constitution. Preserve its union....
Страница 38 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.

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