Excerpt from Trials and Triumphs: The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The leaves that green to summer branches clung,

Lit by the torch of autumn, flare and burn

In radiance more than summer"s; then - they fall,

And leave the branches lone and tenantless.

The torch of Time with autumn splendor lights

Your summer memories, who here have told

Of battle-front and camp-fire comradery.

Viewed through the mist of years, you see your past

Aglow like autumn woods through autumn haze -

The glamour and the glory more than tune"s.

Too soon - O wearers of the sacred blue -

The frost that falls shall bare those golden boughs;

But as one lays away the autumn leaves

Between the pages of his book, so, here,

Forever safe from storms that dull and fade;

Forever safe from snow"s oblivion;

Forever to your children"s children"s eyes

As bright and glory-hued as to your own,

These martial memories of your youth are kept.

Marian Warner Wildman.

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