Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

Both fought for what they deemed the right,

And died with his sword in hand;

One sleeps amid Virginia hills,

And one in Georgia’s sand.

The same sun shines upon their graves,

My love unchanged must stay;

And so upon my bosom lies,

The knot of blue and gray.

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Clara Barton deserves first place in the living memory of the world today, and of generations to come.