ACROSTIC-OUR FLAG

 

ACROSTIC- OUR FLAG 

Arranged by INEZ MCTEE 

Each child carries a letter which is held aloft while speaking, and then fastened on the breast.

O-  fold of white and scarlet! O blue field with your silver stars! May fond eyes welcome you, willing feet follow you, strong hands defend you, warm hearts cherish, you and dying lips give you their blessing! Ours by inheritance, ours by allegiance, our by affection- long may you float on the free winds of heaven the emblem of liberty, the hope of the world! 

Selected  

Up with the banner bright, 

Sprinkled with starry light, 

Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, 

While through the sounding sky 

Loud rings the nation's cry- 

Union and Liberty! One Evermore! 

O. W. Holmes 

R ed says, "Be brave;" 

White says, "Be pure;" 

Blue says, "Be true," 

Selected 

F lag of the free hearts hope and home, 

By angel's hand to valor given; 

Thy stars have lit the welkin dome 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 

Drake 

L et the National flag float over every schoolhouse in the country, and the exercises be such as shall press upon our youth the patri otic duties of American citizens. 

Benjamin Harrison

A song for our banner? The watchword recall 

Which gave the Republic her station; 

United we stand, divided we fall! 

It made and preserved us a nation. 

Morris  

G od bless our stars forever, 

It is liberty's refrain. 

Anon 

References:

2.4 NOV1914 MEMORIAL DAY May Thirtieth 1914 

HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE

 

HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE - POEM

By William Collins 

How sleep the brave who sink to rest 
By all their country's wishes blest! 
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, 
Returns to deck their hallowed mould, 
She there shall dress a sweeter sod 
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 

By fairy hands their knell is rung; 

By forms unseen their dirge is sung; 

There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, 

To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 

And Freedom shall awhile repair 

To dwell a weeping hermit there. 

References:

1. The Grade Teacher May 1931

2.4 NOV1914 MEMORIAL DAY May Thirtieth 1914 

MEMORIAL DAY

 

MEMORIAL DAY - A POEM

By  Emma A. Lent 

A day of tender memory, 
A day of sacred hours, 
Of little bands of marching men, 
Of drums and flags and flowers.

A day when a great nation halts 

Its mighty, throbbing pace, 

It pays its meed of gratitude 

And love with willing grace.  

A day when battles are retold, 

And eulogies are said, 

When dirges sound and chaplains read 

The office for the dead. 

A day when fairest, sweetest blooms 

Are laid upon each grave,

And wreaths are hung on monuments, 

And banners, half-mast wave.

A day to keep from year to year 

In memory of the dead; 

Let music sound, and flowers be laid 

Upon each resting-bed.  

MATERIAL FOR AUDITORIUM AND OTHER MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

References:

1. The Grade Teacher May 1931

2.4 NOV1914 MEMORIAL DAY May Thirtieth 1914 

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

 

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY 

BY FRANCIS MILES FINCH (1827-1907)

By the flow of the inland river, 
Whence the fleets of iron have fled, 

Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, 

Asleep are the ranks of the dead; 

Under the sod and the dew 

Waiting the judgment day; 

Under the one, the Blue, 

Under the other, the Gray.  

These in the robings of glory, 

Those in the gloom of defeat, 

All with the battle-blood gory, 

In the dusk of eternity meet; 

Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day; 

Under the laurel, the Blue, 

Under the willow. the Gray. 

From the silence of sorrowful hours 

The desolate mourners go, 

Lovingly laden with flowers 

Alike for the friend and the foe; 

Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day; 

Under the roses, the Blue, 

Under the lilies, the Gray. 

So with an equal splendor 

The morning sun-rays fall, 

With a touch impartially tender, 

On the blossoms blooming for all; 

Under the sod and the dew; 

Waiting the judgment day;

Broidered with gold, the Blue, 

Mellowed with gold, the Gray. 

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. 

Sadly, but not with upbraiding, 

The generous deed was done; 

In the storm of the years that are fading, 

No braver battle was won; 

Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day; 

Under the blossoms, the Blue; 

Under the garlands, the Gray. 

No more shall the war-cry sever, 

Or the widening rivers be red; 

Our anger is banished forever 

When are laureled the graves of our dead! 

Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day; 

Love and tears, for the Blue; 

Tears and love, for the Gray. 

MATERIAL FOR AUDITORIUM AND OTHER MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

References:

1. The Grade Teacher May 1931

2.THE READER THE FOCUS OF LANGUAGE TRAINING SWINTON'S FIFTH READER AND SPEAKER IVISON BLAKEMAN AND COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK AND CHICAGO 1914

CONCORD HYMN

 

CONCORD HYMN 

By Ralph Waldo Emerson 

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, 

Here once the embattled farmers stood, 

And fired the shot heard round the 

world.

The foe long since in silence slept; 

Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; 

And Time the ruined bridge has swept 

Down the dark stream which seaward 

creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream, 

We set today a votive stone. 

That memory may their deed redeem, 

When, like our sires, our sons are 

gone.   

Spirit that made those spirits dare 

To die and leave their children free 

Bid Time and Nature gently spare 

The shaft we raise to them and thee 

MATERIAL FOR AUDITORIUM AND OTHER MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

References:

1. The Grade Teacher May 1931

2.THE RUSSIAN FAMINE OF 1891 AND 1892 SOME PARTICULARS OF THE RELIEF SENT TO THE DESTITUTE PEASANTS BY THE MILLERS OF AMERICA IN THE STEAMSHIP MISSOURI 084 MINNEAPOLIS THE MILLERS & MANUFACTURERS INSURANCE CO 1893

3. ROME OF TO DAY AND YESTERDAY  THE PAGAN CITY BY JOHN DENNIE LONDON & NEW YORK GP PUTNAM'S SONS LTD First English Edition November 1927 

TO THE BOYS OF AMERICA

 

TO THE BOYS OF AMERICA 

By  Theodore Roosevelt 

Of course what we have a right to expect from the American boy is that shall turn out to be a good man. Now, the chances are strong he won't be much of a man unless he is good deal of a boy. He must not be coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, a prig. He must work hard and hard. He must be clean-minded, clean-lived and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of a man of whom America can really be proud. In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul, and don't shirk, but hit the hard. 

MATERIAL FOR AUDITORIUM AND OTHER MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

References:

1. The Grade Teacher May 1931
2. The Triumphant Life OF Theodore Roosevelt  Citizen Statesman President ames Edited by J MARTIN MILLER The Celebrated Historian and Biographer 1904

UNION AND LIBERTY

 

UNION AND LIBERTY - POEM

By Oliver Wendell Holmes 

MATERIAL FOR AUDITORIUM AND OTHER MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

Flag of the heroes who left us their glory,
Borne through their battlefield's thun-

 der and flame,

 Blazoned in song and illumined in story.

Wave'o'er us all who inherit their fame! 

Up with our banner bright,

 Sprinkled with starry light,

Spread its fair emblems from mountain

 to shore, 

While through the sounding sky 

Loud rings the Nation's cry, 

Union and Liberty! One evermore!  

Light of our firmament, guide of our

Nation, 

Pride of her childrenm and honored afar, 

Let the wide beams of thy full constellation 

Scatter each cloud that would darken 

a star! 

* * * * * * *

Lord of the universe! Shield us and guide 

us, 

Trusting Thee always, through shadow 

and sun! 

Thou hast united us, who shall divide us! 

Keep us, Oh keep us, the MANY IN 

ONE. 

References

1.The Grade Teacher May 1931

2.The Church Household (The Baptist Union Magazine)  May 1900

A SONG OF AMERICA

 

A SONG OF AMERICA 

By A LYNN HAROLD HOUGH  and CARRIE BULLARD 

1. America, my heart's land, 
My singing is for thee;

America, the homeland

Of raptrous liberty; 

America the glad land,

Scattering joy and song; 

America the strong land, 

Fierce battler against wrong! 

2. America, the broad land,

From East to Western sea;

America,  the highland,

Of white peaked mystery;

America, the man's land,

Strong limbed and full of pow'r;  

America, the woman's land,

Fair blooming like a flow'r! 

3.America,  the children's land,

 With mirth and merry plays;

America the old folks land,

With golden sunset days; 

America, my heart's land, 

My singing is for thee;

America, the homeland 

Of raptrous liberty! 

References:

NORMAL and PRIMARY PLANS INSTRUCTOR May 1919

 

    

DECORATION DAY POSTER- COLORING PAGE

 Decoration Day Poster 

It is suggested that the calendar day of the month be taken out of the magazine and mounted on a larger sheet of colored paper. A margin of two inches should be allowed on the top, and the two sides of the drawing; but the bottom margin should be four inches. This will allow a calendar leaf of the whole month to be pasted below the picture. Color mount for the May picture is light blue.

References:

PRIMARY EDUCATION POPULAR EDUCATOR May 1927

 

Mother - A Poem

 Mother 

By Annie Winfrey Meek 

My Mother dear is sweeter far 
Than all the lovely ladies are. 
Kindness is written on her face; 
She scatters joy in every place; 

She makes, wherever she may be, 

A glad and happy place for me. 

Her hands are swift, her heart is 

High honor ever is her due; 

My love is hers, and year by year 

She seems more lovely and more dear.

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS May 1925

DECORATION DAY

DECORATION DAY, or MEMORIAL DAY , one day in the spring of each year, set apart as a legal holiday in most of the states of the American Union, to do honor to those who fought on either side in the War of Secession. Out of an expression of love and grief by bereaved women of the South- the strewing of wild flowers on the graves of their soldier dead one certain day each year- has grown a nation wide and beautiful custom. Since 1899 the celebration of the day has been extended to include the honored dead of the Spanish American War.

 General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, in 1868 designated the thirtieth day of May as the day on which the graves of dead Union soldiers should be decorated, and this date is now universally observed throughout the Northern states. April 26 is appointed as Memorial Day in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; in North and South Carolina the day set apart is May 10; the second Friday in May is ob sered in Tennessee and in Louisiana. Jefferson Davis's birthday, June 3, is also that state's Memorial Day. Decoration Day is now a day of dignified addresses, exercises, parades, and military salutes, as well as strewing of flowers, and planting of shrubs. 

References:

2. WORLD BOOK VOL. III  

JULY

 JULY 

a poem by MAY AIKEN 

JULY FOURTH, when the big flag lay 
Ready to celebrate the day, 
"Barbara Frietchie" I became, 
And faced the enemy's deadly aim 
At my attic window. But I heard a cry 

Of "Fire!"- and saw a sword close by

 Of Stonewall Jackson, his steed astride,- 

Well, I meant to have waved my flag and cried:

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head."-

 But I hid inside the flag, instead!

References;

1. St. Nicholas July 1908