Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by JOHN C. LONG


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THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by                    
First Line: Bowed with grief and sorrow
Last Line: Will in silence a vigil keep.
Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy


Bowed with grief and sorrow
That only a mother feels
At the grave of her son, a soldier,
The flag o'er his tomb reveals.

Softly the wind greets the flowers,
As they bend in silence there;
Bowing to earth as in sympathy
They join in a silent prayer.

She sees him now as an infant
And then as he marched away;
"Oh, could he be ever with us,"
Her teardrops seem to say.

For teardrops oft tell a story
That lips will not reveal;
Tell a story melancholy
That eyes can ne'er conceal.

No more shall the bugle calling
Awaken him from his sleep;
While his flag like a sentinel o'er him
Will in silence a vigil keep.





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