My favorite quotes and sayings

Memorial Day
- William Henry Clay Dodson
Hither we come to scatter flowers

This thirtieth day of May, Upon our fallen heroes' graves

On this Memorial Day;

We cherish now no bitter thoughts

In this fair land of ours,

But on all fallen heroes' graves

We come to scatter flowers.

The rank and file in North and South

Believed their cause was just;

We find upon each battle flag

Inscribed, "In God We Trust;"And in this sunny land of ours,

Now sleeping side by side, The Union Blue and Southern Gray

Lie buried where they died.

Since we have come to scatter flowers

This consecrated day,We cannot cherish bitter thoughts

Toward those who wore the "Gray;"Believing that their cause was right,

Freely their blood they shed;

Then, let us strew-alike-the graves

Of all our sacred dead. And those who for the Union fought,

In scattering flowers to-day On heroes' graves, would never dream

Of passing by the gray; And heroes of the "Southern Cause,

"In paying homage true, Will not forget the graves of those

Who wore the Union Blue.Thrice welcome, then, this sacred day.That binds our hearts anew;Our country undivided stands,For all-now love the Blue;On resurrection day,

Linked arm in arm, we'll find the boys

Who wore the Blue and Gray.