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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:717.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:717.75pt'>Here you go, Roger.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:717.75pt'>Judy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:717.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rouge Bouquet<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>by Joyce Kilmer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:717.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>In a wood they call Rouge Bouquet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>There is a new-made grave today,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Built by never a spade nor pick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Yet covered with earth 10 meters thick.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>There lie many fighting men,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Dead in their youthful prime,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Never to laugh nor love again<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Nor taste the Summertime.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>For Death came flying through the air<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>And stopped his flight at the dugout stair,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Touched his prey and left them there,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Clay to clay.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>He hid their bodies stealthily<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>In the soil of the land they fought to free<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>And fled away.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Now over the grave abrupt and clear<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Three volleys ring;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>And perhaps their brave young spirits hear<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>The bugles sing:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>"Go to sleep!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Go to sleep!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Slumber well where the shell screamed and fell.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>You will not need them any more.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Danger's past;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Now at last,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Go to sleep!"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>There is on earth no worthier grave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>To hold the bodies of the brave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Than this place of pain and pride<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Where they nobly fought and nobly died.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Never fear but in the skies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Saints and angels stand<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Smiling with their holy eyes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>On this new-come band.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>St. Michael's sword darts through the air<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>and touches the aureole on his hair<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>As he sees them stand saluting there,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>His stalwart sons:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>And Patrick, Brigid, Columkill<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Rejoice that in veins of warriors still<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>The Gael's blood runs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>And up to Heaven's doorway floats,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>From the wood called Rouge Bouquet,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>A delicate cloud of bugle notes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>That softly say:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>"Farewell!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Farewell!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Comrades true, born anew, peace to you!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Your souls shall be where the heroes are<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>And your memory shine like the morning-star.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Brave and dear,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Shield us here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-right:717.75pt;text-align:center'>Farewell!"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] On Behalf Of lfalen<br>Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:59 AM<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Joyce kilmer</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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. 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