. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rumorOf anxious world or wars foregathering signs. The bleaching flag, the faded wreath. Mark the dead soldiers dust beneath, And show the death he chose;Forgotten save by her who weeps wrote his fameless name on this low stone: Break not his sweet repose. John Aebee. q ODE AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY Sung mi the occasion of decorating the graves of tin- Confederatedead, at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, on Memorial Day, April, 1867. Sleep sweetly in your humble gr
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rumorOf anxious world or wars foregathering signs. The bleaching flag, the faded wreath. Mark the dead soldiers dust beneath, And show the death he chose;Forgotten save by her who weeps wrote his fameless name on this low stone: Break not his sweet repose. John Aebee. q ODE AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY Sung mi the occasion of decorating the graves of tin- Confederatedead, at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, on Memorial Day, April, 1867. Sleep sweetly in your humble , martyrs of a fallen cause: Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth,The shaft is in the stone! Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep in trust your storied tombs. Heboid! your sisters bring their tears,.And these memorial blooms. : I sed by permission of the 15. F. Johnson Publishing Company. Rich-mond, Virginia, publishers of the Memorial Edition of the Poems ofHenry Timrod. [274]. KRKAK NOT HIS SWEET REPOSE Till. ) HI who fell at HILTON IIKMI IN ISM This sequestered >pot, the burial-place of the sailors who lost their lives in the capture of Hilton Head by theFederal fleel on November 7, 1861, mighl have been designed to fit the poem by John Albee. The live-oaksdroop tenderly above it and cast a gloom around. Through ii conies faintly the seas near though the names of men like these may be unknown to fame, they are not forgotten in their quiel rest-ing-places. Each Memorial Day brings the gratitude of a nation thai was saved because they dared to die.[j—18] ugles ca
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