. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . w bed,And graved on the marble we placed oer his head,As the proudest tribute our sad hearts could pay,He never disgraced the jacket of gray. Then fold it up carefully, lay it aside,Tenderly touch it. look on it with pride;For dear must it be to our hearts evermore,The jacket of gray our loved soldier boy wore! THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY. By Frank O. Tichnor. The kindliest of the kindly band, Who, rarely hating ease,Yet rode with Spottswood round the land And Raleigh round the seas;Who climbed the blue Virginian hills Against embattled fo
. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . w bed,And graved on the marble we placed oer his head,As the proudest tribute our sad hearts could pay,He never disgraced the jacket of gray. Then fold it up carefully, lay it aside,Tenderly touch it. look on it with pride;For dear must it be to our hearts evermore,The jacket of gray our loved soldier boy wore! THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY. By Frank O. Tichnor. The kindliest of the kindly band, Who, rarely hating ease,Yet rode with Spottswood round the land And Raleigh round the seas;Who climbed the blue Virginian hills Against embattled foes,And planted there, in valleys fair, The lily and the rose;Whose fragrance lives in many lands, Whose beauty stars the earth,And lights the hearths of happy homes With loveliness and worth. We thought they slept, the sons who kept The names of noble sires,And slumbered while the darkness crept Around their , aye, the Golden Horse-shoe,, knights Their old Dominion keep,Wliose foes have found enchanted ground, But not a knight asleep!. - .. .
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