Vintage Colorado Poetry Poem of the Week May 30, 2005 for Memorial Day
								"No Mark" by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado's most honored poet, is a brilliant piece of Americana written and first published during World War II,   some sixty years ago.
							No Mark Corn grew where the corn was spilled In the wreck where Casey Jones was killed, Scrub-oak grows and sassafrass Around the shady stone you pass To show where Stonewall Jackson fell That Saturday at Chancellorsville, And soapweed bayonets are steeled Across the Custer battlefield ; But where you die the sky is black A little while with cracking flak, Then ocean crosses very still Above your skull that held our will. O swing away, white gull, white gull, Evening star, be beautiful.          --Thomas Hornsby Ferril Reprinted from Trial by Time by Thomas Hornsby Ferill, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1944. Copyright (c) 1944, Thomas Hornsby Ferril. Renewed, 1962. Used with the permission of Thomas Hornsby Ferril Literary Trust.
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