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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers for our dead!
Last Line: Love for our dead!
Variant Title(s): For Our Dead
Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day
First Line: Flowers for our dead!
Last Line: Love for our dead!
Variant Title(s): For Our Dead
Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day
FLOWERS for our dead!
The delicate wild roses, faintly red;
The valley lily beds, as purely white
As shines their honor in the vernal light;
All blooms that be
As fragrant as their fadeless memory!
By tender hands entwined and garlanded,
Flowers for our dead! ...
Love for our dead!
O hearts that droop and mourn, be comforted!
The darksome path through the abyss of pain,
The final hour of travail not in vain!
For freedom's morning smile
Broadens across the seas from isle to isle.
By reverent lips let this fond word be said:
Love for our dead!
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