Handmade Greeting Card - Seed Packet Card - Sympathy

FORGETMENOTS

Over the graves where our soliders are sleeping

May flowers of beauty are springing once more,

Nature’s mementoes of kindly remembrance,

Opening their petals, now cover them o’er.

Through the green sward all their blue eyes are peeping,

Wak’d by the warm, genial rays of the sun,

Emblems of early and warm adoration,

Breathing the freedome our heroes have won.

Types of the morn, when the glad resurrection

Breaks from the winter of long dreamy sleep,

Crowning the braves with the joy of hereafter.

Sealing the fountains where dewy eyes weep.

Nature unchecked in her warm inspiration,

Breathing through odors of beautiful flowers,

Incense of love with intuitive flowers,

Over the graves of these martyrs of ours.

Typical blossoms of tender emotions,

Springing from hearts where the braves are enshrined;

Love for the heroes, where beautiful garlands

Yearly above them are fondly entwined.

Little ”Forgetmenots” tinged with the ether,

Wearing the robes of the heavenly blue,

Kindly enriched in the soil which dear freedom

Owes to the valiant, the brave and the true.

                                                                 Cornelia A. Pierce McFalls

With Deepest Sympathy