Volume 15 , Issue 21

NW Okie's Corner

With Memorial Day and memories upon us all, I have been researching Memorial day and for the origins of "Taps" in the old newspapers online. Here is to the memories of all veterans of wars, first responders, firefighters, public service workers and volunteers who have given of their time and their life.

This poem about "Peace" was found in The Bemidji Daily, dated 30 May 1912, Bemidji, Minnesota, and written by James Whitcomb Riley.

Peace

On, draw aside the drapery of gloom
And let the sunshine chase the clouds away
And gild with brighter glory every tomb
We decorate today.
And in the holy silence reigning round,
While prayers of perfume bless the atmosphere
Where loyal souls of love and faith are found,
Thank God that peace is here!
And let each angry impulse that may start
Be smothered out of every loyal breast.
And, rocked within the crake of the heart,
Let every sorrow rest.

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