Jason Elmer Hammond, Suggestive programs for special day exercisesMemorial Day… (1898)
“ Years they had marked for the joys of the brave, Years they must waste in the sloth of the grave. All the bright laurels that promised to bloom Fell to the earth when they went to the tomb. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their merits forecast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life. Cover them over—yes, cover them over— Parent and husband and brother and lover; Crown in your heart these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers! ”
