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INDEX

Alarm, The
America
April Thoughts
As It Looks to the Boy
Battle Prayer, A
Beautifying the Flag
Better Thing, The
Big Deeds, The
Bigger Than His Dad
Boy Enlists, The
Boy's Adventure, The
Call, The
Call to Service, The
Change, The
Chaplain, The
Christmas, 1918
Christmas Box, The
Christmas Greeting, A
Complacent Slacker, The
Constant Beauty
Creed, A
Discovery of a Soul, The
Do Your All
Drafted
Duty
Easy Service
Envy
Everywhere in America
Exempt
Father's Prayer, A
Father's Thoughts, A
Father's Tribute, A
Flag, The
Flag on the Farm, The
Fly a Clean Flag
Follow the Flag
For Your Boy and Mine
Friendly Greeting, The
From Laughter to Labor
Future, The
General Pershing
Girl He Left Behind, The
Glory of Age, The
Gold Givers, The
Good Luck
Good Soldier, A
Hate
Here We Are!
His Room
His Santa Claus
Honor Roll, The
Hope
I Follow a Famous Father
Ideals
If He Should Meet a Mother There
Important Thing, The
Joy to Be, The
July the Fourth, 1917
Kelly Ingram
Life's Slacker
Living
Memorial Day
Mother Faith, The
Mother on the Sidewalk, The
Mothers and Wives
My Part
New Year, The
Next of Kin
Our Duty to Our Flag
Out of It All
Over Here
Patriot, A
Patriotic Creed, A
Patriotic Wish, A
Plea, A
Prayer, A
Prayer, 1918, A
Princess Pats, The
Proof of Worth, The
Prophecy
Rebellion
Reflection
Runner McGee
See It Through
Selfishness
Show the Flag
Soldier on Crutches, The
Soldierly
Spring in the Trenches
Struggle, The
Sympathy
Taking His Place
Thanksgiving
Things That Make a Soldier Great, The
Thoughts of a Soldier
Time for Deeds, The
To a Kindly Critic
To a Lady Knitting
To the Men at Home
Undaunted, The
United
Unsettled Scores, The
Waiter at the Camp, The
Warriors
War's Homecoming
We Need a Few More Optimists
We've Had a Letter From the Boy
We Who Stay at Home
When the Drums Shall Cease to Beat
Why We Fight
Wish, A
Wrist Watch Man, The
Your Country Needs You

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Pledged to the bravest and the best,
We stand, who cannot share the fray,
Staunch for the danger and the test.
For them at night we kneel and pray.
Be with them, Lord, who serve the truth,
And make us worthy of our youth!

Here mother-love and father-love
Unite in love of country now;
Here to the flag that flies above,
Our heads we reverently bow;
Here as one people, night and day,
For victory we work and pray.

Nor race nor creed shall difference make,
Nor bigot mar the zealot's plan;
We give our all for Freedom's sake,
Each man a king, each king a man.
Make us the equal, Lord, we pray
Of them who die for truth to-day!

Let us as gladly give our best,
Let us as bravely pay the price
As they, who in the bitter test
Meet the supremest sacrifice.
Oh, God! Wherever we are led,
Let us be worthy of our dead!

Let us not compromise the truth,
Let us not cringe so much in fear
That foes may whisper to our youth
That we have failed in courage here.
Lord, strengthen us, that they may know
Our spirits follow where they go!

Why We Fight

This is the thing we fight:
A cry of terror in the night;
A ship on work of mercy bent--
A carrier of the sick and maimed--
Beneath the cruel waters sent,
And those that did it, unashamed.

A woman who had tried to fill
A mother's place; had nursed the ill
And soothed the troubled brows of pain
And earned the dying's grateful prayers,
Before a wall by soldiers slain!
And such a poor pretext was theirs!

Old women pierced by bayonets grim
And babies slaughtered for a whim,
Cathedrals made the sport of shells,
No mercy, even for a child,
As though the imps of all the hells
Were crazed with drink and running wild.

All this we fight--that some day when
Good sense shall come again to men,
Our children's children may not read
This age's history thus defamed
And find we served a selfish creed
And ever be of us ashamed!

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