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Its words
Are few, but deep and solemn, and they break
FIesh from the fount of feeling - Perciual.


For the Columbian Fountain
lines ON THE DEATH OF MAJOR


RINGGOLD.


BY CHARLES WILSON, U. S. A.
Why should we weep for those,
Who on the field Of strife,
Amid the tramp Of retreating foes,
Yield up the breath of life.
Why mourn the gallant brave,
Who sink to rest on glory's bed!
Will tears add lustre to their fame
Or wake them from the dead?
No--then away with the tear and sigh
At the deeds which we cannot control,
For tits JOY TO the brave, to die,
AS died our brave Ringgold.
Oh! freemen did We but know
The holy pride the soldier feels,
When shouting "on, on to the foe,
He falls, amidst victory's peals,
Ye would not weep, but raise
Your peans loud and high,
AT thoughts of sons so brave,
Who dare SO nobly die.
WAsHINeToN. June 3, 1916.