Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEMORIAL DAY, by EMERETTE H. DUNNING


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MEMORIAL DAY, by                    
First Line: To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day
Last Line: This eventide.
Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day


To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day
As on the Soldier's resting place we lay
Thy flowers, Christ, in tender memory,
Give healing thou,
This eventide.

And for the sorrowing ones who yet remain,
To whom the heart-break and the bitter pain
Come like the memory of an old song's sad refrain,
Have pity thou,
This eventide.

For all the losses of the lonely years—
For all the weight of shed and unshed tears,
For all forebodings, and all coming fears,
Give quietness,
This eventide.

By all the flower of youth in battle slain,
By all the woman's heritage of pain;
The prayer that it may not have been in vain.
We leave with thee,
This eventide.





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