[Vision2020] Rouge Bouquet - Joyce kilmer
lfalen
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Sat Jan 21 21:18:30 PST 2012
Thanks
Roger
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From: Wayne Price bear at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:43:53 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Rouge Bouquet - Joyce kilmer
> Rouge Bouquet
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> Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)
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> IN a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet
> There is a new-made grave to-day,
> Built by never a spade nor pick
> Yet covered with earth ten metres thick.
> There lie many fighting men, 5
> Dead in their youthful prime,
> Never to laugh nor love again
> Nor taste the Summertime.
> For Death came flying through the air
> And stopped his flight at the dugout stair, 10
> Touched his prey and left them there,
> Clay to clay.
> He hid their bodies stealthily
> In the soil of the land they fought to free
> And fled away. 15
> Now over the grave abrupt and clear
> Three volleys ring;
> And perhaps their brave young spirits hear
> The bugle sing:
> “Go to sleep! 20
> Go to sleep!
> Slumber well where the shell screamed and fell.
> Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor,
> You will not need them any more.
> Danger’s past; 25
> Now at last,
> Go to sleep!”
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> There is on earth no worthier grave
> To hold the bodies of the brave
> Than this place of pain and pride 30
> Where they nobly fought and nobly died.
> Never fear but in the skies
> Saints and angels stand
> Smiling with their holy eyes
> On this new-come band. 35
> St. Michael’s sword darts through the air
> And touches the aureole on his hair
> As he sees them stand saluting there,
> His stalwart sons;
> And Patrick, Brigid, Columkill 40
> Rejoice that in veins of warriors still
> The Gael’s blood runs.
> And up to Heaven’s doorway floats,
> From the wood called Rouge Bouquet,
> A delicate cloud of buglenotes 45
> That softly say:
> “Farewell!
> Farewell!
> Comrades true, born anew, peace to you!
> Your souls shall be where the heroes are 50
> And your memory shine like the morning-star.
> Brave and dear,
> Shield us here.
> Farewell!”
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> On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:58 AM, lfalen wrote:
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> > Trees by Joyce Kilmer is one of my favorite poems. He wrote "Rouge
> > bouquet" three days before he was killed during the World War I
> > (1918). It waw written as a tribute to a group of his fellow
> > soldiers who were killed. He read it over there graves.
> > After he was killed, it was read over his grave. I wanted to post it
> > here but do not have the skills to do so. Perhaps someone with the
> > request skills can do so.
> > Roger
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