[Vision2020] Joyce kilmer

[lfalen]

Thanks
Roger
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From: "JLBrown" jlbrown at turbonet.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:38:10 -0800
To: "'lfalen'" lfalen at turbonet.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Joyce kilmer

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> Here you go, Roger.
> 
> Judy
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> Rouge Bouquet
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> by Joyce Kilmer
> 
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> 
> In a wood they call Rouge Bouquet
> 
> There is a new-made grave today,
> 
> Built by never a spade nor pick
> 
> Yet covered with earth 10 meters thick.
> 
> There lie many fighting men,
> 
> Dead in their youthful prime,
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> Never to laugh nor love again
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> Nor taste the Summertime.
> 
> For Death came flying through the air
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> And stopped his flight at the dugout stair,
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> Touched his prey and left them there,
> 
> Clay to clay.
> 
> He hid their bodies stealthily
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> In the soil of the land they fought to free
> 
> And fled away.
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> Now over the grave abrupt and clear
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> Three volleys ring;
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> And perhaps their brave young spirits hear
> 
> The bugles sing:
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> "Go to sleep!
> 
> Go to sleep!
> 
> Slumber well where the shell screamed and fell.
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> Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor,
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> You will not need them any more.
> 
> Danger's past;
> 
> Now at last,
> 
> Go to sleep!"
> 
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> There is on earth no worthier grave
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> To hold the bodies of the brave
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> Than this place of pain and pride
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> Where they nobly fought and nobly died.
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> Never fear but in the skies
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> Saints and angels stand
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> Smiling with their holy eyes
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> On this new-come band.
> 
> St. Michael's sword darts through the air
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> and touches the aureole on his hair
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> As he sees them stand saluting there,
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> His stalwart sons:
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> And Patrick, Brigid, Columkill
> 
> Rejoice that in veins of warriors still
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> The Gael's blood runs.
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> And up to Heaven's doorway floats,
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> From the wood called Rouge Bouquet,
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> A delicate cloud of bugle notes
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> That softly say:
> 
> "Farewell!
> 
> Farewell!
> 
> Comrades true, born anew, peace to you!
> 
> Your souls shall be where the heroes are
> 
> And your memory shine like the morning-star.
> 
> Brave and dear,
> 
> Shield us here.
> 
> Farewell!"
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of lfalen
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:59 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Joyce kilmer
> 
>  
> 
> Trees by Joyce Kilmer is one of my favorite poems. He wrote "Rouge bouquet"
> three days before he was killed during the World War I (1918). It waw
> written as a tribute to a group of his fellow soldiers who were killed. He
> read it over there graves. 
> 
> After he was killed, it was read over his grave. I wanted to post it here
> but do not have the skills to do so. Perhaps someone with the request skills
> can do so. 
> 
> Roger
> 
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