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“OLD GLORY” REVIVES THE SPIRITS OF THE BRAVE BOYS.HAPPINESS DRIVES WAV THOUGHTS OF WEARY MARCHES.All Praise to the Brave Defenders of Old Glory, Our Homes and Firesides.The Reunion a Great Multitude of Seathing Humanity and a Pronounced Success-=-Company K, Princeton State Militia in Command of the Grounds===Two Sham Battles to Be Faught.The Reunion.rComrades! the glass which memory holds Before onr eyes today,So radiant with the forms we loved When patriotic sway.Bade us go forward at the call Of duty stern and plain,Our country’s voice in troubled tones Pleading and not in vain.AOh! that fair day, how shone the sun,How bright the river lay,How with swift beating of the heart,Each, proudly rode away.Ami titrate swept on; our comrades sleep Beneath the peaceful years,While we recall their fellowship In laughter and in tears.The j jye that on those arid hours Fell like the summer rain,Upon the fainting sun-scorei:td tiees Or spring-deserted plainThe dark soots in the picture Each has before Ids eye,The crushing grief unspoken,The bursting sob or sigh.Thus, while their rest is dreamless We wait for ours to come,And count with each returning nightA day’s marsh nearer home.—Mis. Annie E Caldwell, Walnut Cheek, Cal
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English Crawford County Democrat
English, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 26, 1897
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