MEMORIAL DAY.
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We deck your graves with flowers today,
O comrades brave and true!
In token of the love we bear,
Our offerings round we strew.
—Henry A. Lavely.
EMBLEMS OF DECORATION DAY.
BY WILLIAM WOODMAN.
(Child with bunch of red roses recites.)
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(Child with bunch of violets recites.)
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ALL HAIL “ OLD GLORY!”
PROF. GEO. W. WAITE, SUP’T OF SCHOOLS, OBERLIN, O.
[Air:—“Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.”]
All hail! starry flag of the nation,
The boast of the brave and the free;
We hail thee with glad acclamation,
Our hearts and our hopes are with thee.
Yes, peerless on land and the ocean;
Revered by the loyal and true;
We hail thee with steadfast devotion—
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue!
Chorus:⊣:Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue!:||
Our Old Glory banner, forever!
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue!
In days when the war cry resounded,
When Liberty’s name was assailed,
Thy foes were full often confounded.
Thy cause, glorious banner prevailed.
The century past chants thy praises,
And when brightly shall dawn every new,
Each son of Columbia raises
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue!