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Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy Robert E. Lee 186 |
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 Robert E. Lee Chapter 186 Chartered December 17, 1897 59 members Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday at 10:00 a.m. September - May |
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Memorial to the Daughters who Have Gone Away [1] by Mamie Wynne Cox, Poet Laureate Let silence reign a little while today To honor those whose strivings now are stilled. If marvels of Revealments they have found God's promises of rest and peace fulfilled. Bright, fragrant flowers let us place today, Naming our Sainted Ones. And tapers light. for those who gone away whose quest is done Eternal Day has dawned, there is not night. Soft, tender music let us bring today. Dear, Southern songs they loved play once again. Voices now mute whose tones were pure and clear Echo in patriotic sweet refrain. Could but a message come to us today Of Wisdom's plan in which all men belong, Disclosing holy wonders, it might bring Triumphant hope voiced in an Angel-song. Let us take comfort to our hearts today. Time's quite, healing balm is always near. Like those who faced their future brave and strong May we meet vast Tomorrow without fear. So let us lift our grateful eyes today And look to north, to south, to east and west. Beholding vistas of our cherished land for which they strove' a South supremely blest. Daughters of the Robert E. Lee 186 Chapter: Jimmy Dowell - June 14, 2009 Diane Dicks - July 13, 2009 [1] Source: Minute Book of the 51st Annual Convention, Texas Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy (Incorporated), Dallas, Texas, September 17-20, 1947, p. 33. |
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