Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


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DECORATION DAY, by                    
First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides
Last Line: Their censers swing in air.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day


There are graves on many hill-sides,
White stones in shining rows,
Where half a hundred winters
Have spread their velvet snows.

To each the Springtime priestess
Her Paschal flowers will bear;
Each Summer's offered incense
Will breathe a people's prayer.

Over seas in tropic jungles
Of Cuba and Luzon,
The tangled thickets cover
What mothers called their own.

But snows shall never whiten
The graves wide scattered there;
Above them alien blossoms
Their censers swing in air.





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