In the storm of the years that are fading,

No braver battle was won.

“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,

Waiting the judgment day;

Love and tears for the blue,

Tears and love for the gray.”—F. M. Finch.