Flag Goes By

By:  Henry Holcomb Bennett

Hats off!

Along the street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,

A flash of color beneath the sky:

Hats off!

The flag is passing by!

Blue and crimson and white it shines,

Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines.

Hats off!

The colors before us fly;

But more than the flag is passing by.

Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great,

Fought to make and to save the State:

Weary marches and sinking ships;

Cheers of victory on dying lips;

Days of plenty and years of peace;

March of a strong land’s swift increase;

Equal justice, right and law,

Stately honor and reverend awe;

Sign of a nation, great and strong

To ward her people from foreign wrong:

Pride and glory and honor,—all

Live in the colors to stand or fall.

Hats off!

Along the street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums;

And loyal hearts are beating high:

Hats off!

The flag is passing by!

Andrew is smoking his bacon!

Now I have no reason to be late 😊

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” – James A. Garfield

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” – Plato

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein

“Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.” – Dodinsky

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” – Douglas Macarthur 

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.” – Walt Disney

“Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Satchel Paige

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.– E.E. Cummings

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Daniel Francois Esprit Auberge

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw 

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” – May Lamberton Becker

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” – Satchel Paige

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Audrey Hepburn

 “The trick to aging gracefully is to enjoy it.” – Unknown 

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” – Samuel Ullman

Today we weaned steers with the help of Don, Tracy, Glenn, Chelsea, and Andy.  It was a blessed and safe weaning.  

For the first time since we’ve owned our tractor it will have a shed to be in this winter.

God bless America! May the ones who love God, love America, love its citizens, and love our freedoms get voted in today!