Unknown Flag of the Free Heart's Hope and Home
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08413.38 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: New York Type: Envelope Date: 27 April 1861 Pagination: 1 envelope. ; 14.7 x 8.8 cm. Order a Copy
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BE KIND TO EACH OTHER.
Be kind to each other,
The night's coming on,
When friend and when brother
Perchance may be gone;
Then 'midst our dejection,
How sweet to have earned
The blest recollection
Of kindness returned.
When day hath departed,
And memory keeps
Her watch broken hearted,
Where all the loved sleep,
Let falsehood assail not,
Nor envy disprove,
Let trifles prevail not
Against those ye love.
Nor change with to-morrow,
Should fortune take wing-
The deeper the sorrow,
The closer they cling.
Be kind to each other,
The night's coming on,
When friend and when brother,
Perchance may be gone. 1864
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