Edwin Martin - Evergreen Cemetery - Perry, GA
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lazyCachers
N 32° 27.365 W 083° 44.214
17S E 242731 N 3594289
Located on the arch at the entrance to the Evergreen Cemetery in Perry, GA just off US 41 on Main St.
Waymark Code: WMAR41
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2011
Views: 7
In peace the loved ones sweetly sleep beneath the oaks' refreshing shade, by Ocklahatchie's hurling sweep where white bays fill the od'rous glade.
The mocking-bird's exultant song with rapturous music fills the air and heavenly incense breathes among the mounds amid the flowers fair.
Here rest dear friends of life's green prime and early manhood's ardent years. They've left behind the cares of time, its hopes and sorrows, smiles and fears;
They've crossed the gloomy river's flood and, camping 'neath the leafy trees, they bide the time of him whose blood from death and every evil frees.
And soon we'll join the silent band that waits the final trumpet's sound, in faith we see the pierced hand that points where peace and rest abound.
Edwin Martin
July 25, 1886
This poem was written for the Perry Home Journal Descriptive of Evergreen Cemetery
Address:
Main Street
Perry, GA 31069
Website: [Web Link]
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