Quote#Beauty
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.[…] The…
Quote byThomas Bailey Aldrich · 1836–1907
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ponkapog Papers (1903), "Asides: Decoration Day", p. 96.
English (original)
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.[…] The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
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