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May 12, 2015

THE SENTRY

 ... 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