Again, as I stood on the terrace of the Capitol that April afternoon, and looked out across the Potomac to the old Lee mansion at arlington, while all the flags of Washington drooped at half-mast, a very different piece of verse somehow floated into my memory: "Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor, For 'alf o' Creation she owns: We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword and the flame, And salted it down with our bones.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
"Henceforth," said one paper, "the graves at arlington will constitute a truly national cemetery;" and the same note was struck in a thousand other quarters.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
I have been commissioned to purchase all the tapestries and carpets that may be needed for the new Young Women's Christian Association Building, on arlington Avenue, this city.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood