• Author: Unknown
• Editor: B-8266
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume V
• Page Number:
• Date: 9 11 1918
• Tags:
• poetry

HERO DAY September 13, 1918. (To the memory of Pennsylvania’s dead)

O men of Pennsylvania, Who heard the drum’s behest; O lads of Pennsylvania, Our bravest, and our best; Who lifted up a knightly lance, And died to stay the Hun’s advance; And sleep in flow’ry fields of France, So gloriously ‘‘Gone West.”

O men of Pennsylvania, We honor being dead; O lads of Pennsylvania, For whom our tears are shed; Rest ye, abiding guests of Fame; We shall take up your task amain, And none shall say ye died in vain, Your blood was useless shed.

O men of Pennsylvania, Who being dead, live on; O lads of Pennsylvania, Who knew but manhood’s dawn; Mother, or wife, or maid may weep, For that a tryst you wili not keep; But ye have honor, and ye sleep: What, and ye had not gone?