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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE
First Line: Is it enough to think to-day
Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day
First Line: Is it enough to think to-day
Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day
IS it enough to think to-day
Of all our brave, then put away
The thought until a year has sped?
Is this full honor for our dead?
Is it enough to sing a song
And deck a grave; and all year long
Forget the brave who died that we
Might keep our great land proud and free?
Full service needs a greater toll —
That we who live give heart and soul
To keep the land they died to save,
And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!
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