Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news. [volume], May 22, 1935, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
LFIIS Is the story of two men—a
Southerner and a Northerner.
It is also the story of the two
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war with Mexico began he was a captain in the
United States army. By the time the war
ended, he came back to the Bluegrass a major.
There were other Kentuckians who came back
also—to rest in the soil of their native state.
When they were buried at Frankfort, Major
O'Hara, standing on a grassy hillside In the midst
of a great crowd, recited a poem which he had
written in tribute to his fallen comrades. It was :
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal pimping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shlvefed swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust.
Is now their martial shroud.
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade.
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade.
The din and shout are past;
Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal.
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau.
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain
Came down the serried foe.
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break o'er the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was "Victory or Death."
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Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O'er all that stricken plain.
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide ; /
Not long, our stout old chieftain knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.
*Twas In that hour his stern command
Called to a martyr's grave
The flower of his beloved land,
The nation's flag to save.
By rivers of their fathers' gore
His first-born laurels grew,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory too.
Full many a norther's breath has swept
O'er Angostura's plain—
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above the moldering slain.
The raven's scream, or eagle's flight.
Or shepherd's pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray.
Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air.
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from War his richest spoil—
The ashes of her brave.
Thus 'neath their parent turf they fest.
Far from the gory field.
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
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And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The heroes' sepulcher.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave,
No Impious footstep here shall, tread
The herbage of your grave 1 ;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell
When many a vanquished age hath flown,
■The story how ye fell.
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
Nor time's remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb.
When in the spring of 1861 the drums began
beating the long roll again, O'Hara cast his lot
with the South. He served until the end of the
war, engaged in business at Columbus, Ga., then
Retired to a plantation In Alabama where he died
June 7, 1867. In 1873 the Kentucky legislature
voted an appropriation to bring the body of her
soldier-poet back to the Bluegrass. The next year
they buried him with military honors in Com
monwealth cemetery in Frankfort. He rests there
beside his fellow soldiers for whom he wrote the
poem that has become world-famous and which
has been called "the perfect requiem of four
wars"—Theodore O'Hara's "The Bivouac of the
Dead."
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"Perfect requiem of four wars" though O'Hara's
poem wns, it remained for another to become
more particularly associated with the Memorial
day observance which grew out of the conflict of
1861-65.
In 1865, the women of Columbus, Ga., decorated
the graves of their war dead and the following
January the members of the Ladies' Aid society
there decided to perpetuate the custom. They
picked upon April 26, 1866, as the date for their
Memorial day celebration.
So they held their memorial services In the
cemetery on that date and decorated not only the
graves of the Confederate war dead, but also
those of some Union soldiers buried there.
The next spring there appeared In a New York
newspaper a brief paragraph which stated that
"the women of Columbus, Miss., have shown
themselves Impartial in their offerings made to
the memory of the dead. They strewed flowers
alike on the graves of the Confederate and of
the National soldiers."
At that time a young man named Francis
Miles Finch was practicing law in Ithaca, N. Y.
Born in 1827, he had been graduated from Yale
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O'Hara^ Tomb
in 1849 and, as class poet, had delivered a mem
orable poem at the commencement exercises.
When he read the newspaper item about the
action of the women in Columbus, Miss. Francis
Miles Finch, the lawyer, became Francis Miles
Finch, the poet,^ again, and In 1867 therfe ap
peared In the Atlantic Monthly this poem ;
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
By the flow of the Inland river,
Whence the fleets of Iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray.
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
to.the dusk of eternity meet:
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment-day;
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe :
Under the s<jd and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor.
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch Impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all:
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment-day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So, 1 when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain:
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment-day;
Wet with the rain, the Bine,
Wet with the rain, the Gray. /
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done,
In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was won:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead:
Under the^sod and the dew,
the judgment-day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
This poem became Instantly popular. It was
reprinted in hundreds of newspapers throughout
the land. It was set to music and sung as a patri
otic ' hymn. .A famous anthology of American
poetry calls It "a national classic."
In later years Finch became a justice of the
New York Court of Appeals, helped organize
Cornell university, was a member of Its first
board of trustees, became dean of its law school
in 1892 and held other positions of honor and
trust until his death in 1907. But America does
not remember the famous jurist and educator
nearly so well as it remembers the man whose
poetic message of reconciliation helped reunite
a nation arid heal the wounds of a great war,
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Airplanes Enlisted for
War on Locust Hordes
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During the past nine years locust
swarms have been devastating vast
In Africa and western Asia,
areas
and since 1920 experts have been
studying means of controlling the
insects. Recently, at an international
locust conference held in London, it
wffs resolved that the locusts could
be halted through the control of
their breeding grounds, or, if they
already in migration, through
their destruction in flight.
Agricultural development in Africa
has been considerably impeded by
the depredations of the locusts,
which have caused losses of approxi
mately $35,000,090. Investigations
h^ve now disclosed that each species
of locust Inhabits exclusively a defi
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migrations are governed byflie sea
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to breed in the remote lands south
of the Sahara and to migrate north
ward to the fertile Mediterranean
coast of Africa.
Once the breeding areas have been
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As swarms gather preparatory to
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possible, recent experiments in Af
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poison dust sprayed from airplanes.
Locusts make no effort, it has been
shown, to avoid a cloud of sodium
arsenate dust blown across their
line of flight. Nor does the passage
of an airplane through or across
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