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Rick
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Rick asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

Tribute For Fallen Soldiers?

Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave, A lonely, mossy mound; And yet to hearts like mine and thine It should be holy ground. Speak softly, let no careless laugh, No idle, thoughtless jest, Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps The hero in his rest. For him no reveille will beat When morning beams shall come; For him, at night, no tattoo rolls Its thunders from the drum. Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed, Ere laid beneath this sod, His ashes to his native land, His gallant soul to God.

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  • 9 years ago
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    You made me cry, so beautiful

  • 9 years ago

    Very nice, but I wish you would lay it out like a poem.

    Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,

    A lonely, mossy mound;

    And yet to hearts like mine and thine

    It should be holy ground.

    Speak softly, let no careless laugh,

    No idle, thoughtless jest,

    Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps

    The hero in his rest.

    For him no reveille will beat

    When morning beams shall come;

    For him, at night, no tattoo rolls

    Its thunders from the drum.

    Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,

    Ere laid beneath this sod,

    His ashes to his native land,

    His gallant soul to God.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    what about it?

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