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    1. [Fwd: Fwd: Fw: Civil War Poem (Only A Soldiers Grave) # 4]
    2. Rita Hallett
    3. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B3241BA8E29A2405F2351C4D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > ONLY A SOLDIER'S GRAVE > By S.A. Jones > > Only a soldier's grave! Pass by, > For soldiers, like other mortals, die. > Parents had he -- they are far away; > No sister weeps o'er the soldier's clay; > No brother comes, with tearful eye; > It's only a soldier's grave -- pass by. > True, he was loving, and young, and brave, > Though no glowing epitaph honors his grave; > No proud recital of virtues known, > Of griefs endured, or triumphs won; > No tablet of marble, or obelisk high; -- > Only a soldier's grave: -- pass by. > Yet bravely he wielded his sword in fight, > And he gave his life in the cause of right! > When his hope was high, and his youthful dream > As warm as the sunlight on yonder stream; > His heart unvexed by sorrow or sigh; -- > Yet, 'tis only a soldier's grave: - pass by. > Yet, we should mark it -- the soldier's grave, > Some one may seek him in hope to save! > Some of the dear ones, far away, > Would bear him home to his native clay: > 'Twere sad, indeed, should they wander nigh, > Find not the hillock, and pass him by. > --------------B3241BA8E29A2405F2351C4D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <Jljmosb@aol.com> Received: from imo21.mx.aol.com by edumaster.net (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA21231; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:20:33 -0500 Received: from Jljmosb@aol.com by imo21.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id WUFVa12330; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:31:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Jljmosb@aol.com Message-ID: <2b63453.35bde0b8@aol.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:31:19 EDT To: Beckylnn@aol.com, Susanlnn@aol.com, AOsburn@aol.com, GRANYHOUSE@aol.com, lafink@cei.net, ritah@edumaster.net Cc: jcosb@juno.com, irenebill@juno.com, josburn@juno.com, aosburn@compuserve.com, drooge@earthlink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Fwd: Fw: Civil War Poem (Only A Soldiers Grave) # 4 X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 38 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part0_901636279_boundary" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_901636279_boundary Content-ID: <0_901636279@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi again This is #2 of 2. Hope it's getting through ok. Janet --part0_901636279_boundary Content-ID: <0_901636279@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <gkile@semo.net> Received: from relay18.mx.aol.com (relay18.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.18]) by air13.mail.aol.com (v46.20) with SMTP; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:52:03 -0400 Received: from vigil.pbmo.net (vigil.semo.net [199.217.243.1]) by relay18.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id JAA12910 for <Jljmosb@aol.com>; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:51:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown (ppp-4.vanburen.semo.net [199.217.242.82] (may be forged)) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA28823 for <Jljmosb@aol.com>; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:51:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <MAPI.Id.0016.006b696c652020203030303530303035@MAPI.to.RFC822> In-Reply-To: <6670b2ab.3574839a@aol.com> References: Conversation <6670b2ab.3574839a@aol.com> with last message <6670b2ab.3574839a@aol.com> Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: Jljmosb@aol.com From: "Genevieve Kile" <gkile@semo.net> Subject: Fw: Civil War Poem (Only A Soldiers Grave) # 4 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 98 08:15:00 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ---------- > Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 15:58:30 > From: Gloria Hursey > To: gkile@semo.net > Subject: Civil War Poem (Only A Soldiers Grave) # 4 > > ONLY A SOLDIER'S GRAVE > By S.A. Jones > > Only a soldier's grave! Pass by, > For soldiers, like other mortals, die. > Parents had he -- they are far away; > No sister weeps o'er the soldier's clay; > No brother comes, with tearful eye; > It's only a soldier's grave -- pass by. > True, he was loving, and young, and brave, > Though no glowing epitaph honors his grave; > No proud recital of virtues known, > Of griefs endured, or triumphs won; > No tablet of marble, or obelisk high; -- > Only a soldier's grave: -- pass by. > Yet bravely he wielded his sword in fight, > And he gave his life in the cause of right! > When his hope was high, and his youthful dream > As warm as the sunlight on yonder stream; > His heart unvexed by sorrow or sigh; -- > Yet, 'tis only a soldier's grave: - pass by. > Yet, we should mark it -- the soldier's grave, > Some one may seek him in hope to save! > Some of the dear ones, far away, > Would bear him home to his native clay: > 'Twere sad, indeed, should they wander nigh, > Find not the hillock, and pass him by. > --part0_901636279_boundary-- --------------B3241BA8E29A2405F2351C4D--

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