Memorial Day: Aids for Its Proper Observance by the Schools of Wisconsin

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1923
 

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23 ページ - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let- the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
30 ページ - Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he ? he cannot know : Lay him low...
23 ページ - We will never bring disgrace to this, our City by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the City both alone and with many. We will revere and obey the City's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught. We will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty.
23 ページ - We will never bring disgrace to this our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks ; we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both...
14 ページ - Speed, die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.
22 ページ - My name is Liberty! From out a mighty land I face the ancient sea, I 'lift to God my hand; By day in Heaven's light, A pillar of fire by night. At ocean's gate I stand Nor bend the knee. "The dark Earth lay in sleep, Her children crouched forlorn, Ere on the western steep I sprang to height, reborn : Then what a joyous shout The quickened lands gave out.
44 ページ - William," and not all the clouds which calumny could collect ever dimmed to their eyes the radiance of that lofty mind to which they were accustomed, in their darkest calamities, to look for light As long as he lived, he was the guiding star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets.
16 ページ - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it.
19 ページ - When you see the Stars and Stripes displayed, son, stand up and take off your hat. Somebody may titter. It is in the blood of some to deride all expression of noble sentiment. You may blaspheme in the street and stagger drunken in public places, and the bystanders will not pay much attention to you, but if you should get down on your knees and pray to Almighty God, or if you should stand bareheaded while a company of old soldiers marches by with flags to the breeze, most people will think you are...
30 ページ - Leave him to God's watching eye; Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by: God alone has power to aid him.

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