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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
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When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
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O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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