The Unfallen Brave + 

Not all in sorrow and in tears, + 

To pay of gratitude’s arrears + 

The yearly sum⁠— + 

Not prompted, wholly by the pride + 

Of those for whom their friends have died, + 

To-day we come. + 

Another aim we have in view + 

Than for the buried boys in blue + 

To drop a tear: + 

Memorial Day revives the chin + 

Of Barnes, and Salomon chimes in⁠— + 

That’s why we’re here. + 

And when in after ages they + 

Shall pass, like mortal men, away, + 

Their war-song sung⁠— + 

When Fame shall tell the tale anew + 

Of how intrepidly they drew + 

The deadly tongue⁠— + 

Then cull white lilies for the graves + 

Of Loyalty’s loquacious braves, + 

And roses red. + 

Those represent their livers, these + 

The blood that in unmeasured seas + 

They did not shed. + 