Sunday, May 25, 2014

"Sweetest Flowers" by Annie M. Toohey (1928)

Sweetest Flowers.

BY ANNIE M. TOOHEY

The sweetest flowers born today

O'er consecrated shrines of clay

Are those around our braves entwine,

Loved soldier boys—are, yours and mine.


The sweetest flowers born today

Are strewn o'er once-encrimsoned spray,

Amid where battle waters flow

And heroes sank long, long ago.


The sweetest flowers born today

Are where old loyal comrades stray

Once more in feeble martial pace

Those hallow'd graves to proudly trace.


The sweetest flowers born today

Are those abloom in tend'rest way,

In mother hands, uplifted where

The voice of Peace resounds in prayer.

Troy Times. May 31, 1928: 20 col 1.

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