... on a little walkabout i took notice the soldier standing post in the park ...
... even after the passing of more than forty years, still i could recite:
"I will quit my post only when properly relieved."
GENERAL ORDER #5
... as i walked away i saw another had remembered, too ...
So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day,
Wet with the rain, the Blue
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
FRANCIS MILES FINCH