. Book of the Royal blue . songsters love to meet .d trill their choicest echoes from each leaf repeat Through all the tuneful summer The loving groves of Sohliers Home - How mournfully their arms .are spreadAbove the sacred, solemn spot Where lies the dust of heroes dead!And when a well-loved form is missed That they, when living, knew so couch is by their shalayed!Their weaving shadows gently rest On velvet robes of Mother Karth,While rays with jewels deck her breast .d kiss sweet Howerets into birth. The sacred groves of Soldiers Home— How sweet the moments i

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. Book of the Royal blue . songsters love to meet .d trill their choicest echoes from each leaf repeat Through all the tuneful summer The loving groves of Sohliers Home - How mournfully their arms .are spreadAbove the sacred, solemn spot Where lies the dust of heroes dead!And when a well-loved form is missed That they, when living, knew so couch is by their shalayed!Their weaving shadows gently rest On velvet robes of Mother Karth,While rays with jewels deck her breast .d kiss sweet Howerets into birth. The sacred groves of Soldiers Home— How sweet the moments in their shadeWhen flowers of love and grief we strew Where heroes, worn, to rest are laid!Here Heaven to us seems very near, .d o[irn seem the pearly gatesWherein a comraiie, once so dear. His dearest, tardy comrade tfjjI^S

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