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    A Memorial Day Poem

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    A Memorial Day Poem

    Friday, May 22nd, 2009

    Illustration of Memorial Day Flowers

    MEMORIAL FLOWERS.
    By M. M.

    Blue violets open their saintly eyes,
    Red columbines bend and sway,
    White star-flowers twinkle in beds of moss,
    And, blooming, they seem to say,
    “We bring you the red and the white and the blue
    To welcome Memorial-day.”

    So gather them, children, at earliest dawn,
    While yet they are fresh with dew,
    And we’ll scatter them over the sacred mounds
    Where slumber our soldiers true;
    For we’ll give them only the colors they loved-
    The red and the white and the blue.

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    A Recording of Walt Whitman Reading His Poem “America”

    Saturday, May 24th, 2008

    Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is one of America’s greatest poets.

    Here’s a recording of him, from 1890. He’s reading from a poem called “America” which has been preserved on a wax cylinder from 1888.

    The lines he’s reading can be a little hard to understand. Here’s what he’s saying:

    “America

    Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
    All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
    Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
    Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love…”

    I found this to have special meaning on Memorial Day weekend, when America honors her sons and daughters who have died fighting for Freedom.

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