Michael Adelberg / Historical Speech / Somber Reverance
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US Mid-Atlantic)Transcript
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standing beneath the serene sky overlooking these broad fields. Now opposing from the labours of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies, dimly towering before us the graves of our brethren beneath our feet. It is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and nature. But the duty to which you have called me must be performed. Grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy. He was appointed by law in Athens that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense and in the most honorable manner. Their bones were carefully gathered up from the funeral pyre where their bodies were consumed and brought home to the city. There for three days before the internment. They lay in state beneath tense of honor to receive the votive offerings of friends and relatives. Flowers, weapons, precious ornaments, painted vases. The last tributes of surviving affection