Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . d Shaw of Boston wasthe only officer buried with the colored that being side by side, in death as in life,with the men he had loved and trusted couldhave given Shaw anything but joy! It is forthis reason that I like especially the wonderfulSt. Gaudens monument in which he and hisnegro followers make up an impressive andartistic unit. Each year on Memorial day theRobert Bell post of Grand Army men, all ofwhom are colored, hang wreaths of immortelleson the Shaw Memorial and it seems to
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . d Shaw of Boston wasthe only officer buried with the colored that being side by side, in death as in life,with the men he had loved and trusted couldhave given Shaw anything but joy! It is forthis reason that I like especially the wonderfulSt. Gaudens monument in which he and hisnegro followers make up an impressive andartistic unit. Each year on Memorial day theRobert Bell post of Grand Army men, all ofwhom are colored, hang wreaths of immortelleson the Shaw Memorial and it seems to me aparticularly happy thing that they must thushonor at one and the same time their blackbrethren and the white hero who was theirleader. I want to fling my leaf on dear Shawsgrave, wrote Lowell to Fields when preparingthe poem INIemoriae Positum in which thebrave youth is so stirringly sung. Then headded, * I want the poem to be a little monu-mental. It is that. Especially the verse: Brave, good and true,I see him stand before me now,And read again on that young every hope was new,. 5 5 a 3o 5
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