Quotations for Memorial Day

With the tears a Land hath shed
Their graves should ever be green.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.

James Gates Percival 

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Rupert Brooke

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Francis Marion Crawford

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Minot J. Savage

Isn't death to fall for Freedom's right?
He's dead alone who lacks her light!

Thomas Campbell

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

Thomas Dunn English

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

Lee Greenwood

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...

Thomas Moore

We who are left how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

Wilfred Wilson Gibson