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The quiet graves of our country's braves	A
Through thirty Junes and Decembers	A
Have solemnly lain under sun and rain	B
And yet the Nation remembers	A
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The marching of feet and the flags on the street	C
Told once again this morning	D
In the voice of the drum how the day had come	E
For those lowly beds' adorning	D
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Then swiftly back on Time's worn track	F
His three decades seemed driven	G
And with startled eyes I saw arise	A
From graves by fancy riven	G
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The Gray and Blue in a grand review	H
Oh vast were the hosts they numbered	I
As they wheeled and swayed in a dress parade	J
O'er the graves where they long had slumbered	J
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The colours were not as when they fought	J
Ranked one against the other	K
But a mingled hue of gray and blue	H
As brother marching with brother	K
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And a blue flower lay on each coat of gray	L
Like forget me nots on a boulder	K
And the gray moss lace in its Southern grace	A
Was knotted on each blue shoulder	K
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The vision fled but I think our dead	J
If they could come back with the living	D
Would clasp warm hands o'er hostile lands	A
Forgetting old wrongs and forgiving	D
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'Mong the blossoms of Spring that you gather and bring	D
To graves that though lowly are royal	M
Let the blue flower prevail though modest and pale	N
Since it speaks of the hue that was loyal	M
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But tie each bouquet with a ribbon of gray	L
And lay it on memory's altar	K
For the dead who fought for the cause they thought	J
Was right and who did not falter	K

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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