Meadow

Here a battlefield once stood

When a raging war was once at hand

Where many men had suffered wounds

And many took their final stand

Amidst the cannon’s smokey boom

Amidst the men who, falling

Saw sights of heaven burst in bloom

And heard their Savior calling

Amidst the flags which bore their cause

And bursting battle cries

An army fell into death’s jaws

To meet a dark demise

Here war’s shadow one time loomed

Before anger knew of its great cost

But now, a grassy meadow’s bloomed

Where all these men were lost

A flowery graveyard where guns once blew

Fresh grass where knives dug friend to friend

Death’s meadow then now anew

To prove in rising up again