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Daniel Webster
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
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Francis Marion Crawford
They fell, but o'er their glorious graveFloats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
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Philip Freneau
But fame is theirs - and future daysOn pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
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Thomas Dunn English
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
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Wallace Bruce
Who kept the faith and fought the fight;The glory theirs, the duty ours.
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Will Carleton
Cover them over with beautiful flowers,Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,Lying so silent by night and by day.
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