ern homes as were those they themselves had
loved.

Certainly no sweeter suggestion could have been
more tenderly carried out than that which led
these bereaved women to spread flowers over the
graves of those who were once their enemies.
Mr. Finch was told of this incident, and the lines
he wrote show his appreciation of the "generous
deed." The poem, "The Blue and the Gray," did
much to heal the wounds in both North and South.

The two poems by Judge Francis Miles Finch are
quoted here, the first with the drum-beat pulsing
through it; the second in musical, flowing lines
that carry in them sorrow, loyalty, and the community
of a common bereavement.

_____KALE'S FATE AND FAME_____

_____And one there was--his name immortal now--
_____Who dies not to the ring of rattling steel,
_____Or battle-march of spirit-stirring drum,
_____But, far from comrades and from friendly camp,
_____Alone upon the scaffold.

__________To drum-beat and heart-beat
__________A soldier marches by;
__________There is color in his cheek,
__________There is courage in his eye,
__________Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat
__________In a moment he must die.

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