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…
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,
God has been good to men. He gave His Only Son their souls to save, And then he made a second gift, Which from their dreary lives should lif… The tyrant’s yoke and set them free
We have boasted our courage in moments o… Our star-spangled banner we’ve flung on… We have taught men to cheer for its beau… And have called it the flag of the brave… Now the dark days are here, we must stan…
Not somewhere in America, but everywher… Where snow-crowned mountains hold their… the vales where children play, Beside the bench and whirring lathe, on… lake and stream
The things that make a soldier great and… To face the flaming cannon’s mouth, nor… Are lilacs by a little porch, the row of… The peonies and pansies, too, the old pe… The grass plot where his children play,…
We never knew how much the Flag Could mean, until he went away, We used to boast of it and brag, As something of a by-gone day; But now the Flag can start our tears
God of battles, be with us now: Guard our sons from the lead of shame, Watch our sons when the cannons flame, Let them not to a tyrant bow. God of battles, to Thee we pray:
Good luck! That’s all I’m saying, as yo… The best o’ luck, in the parting, is the… May you never meet a danger that you won… May you never meet a German that can ge… Oh! A thousand things may happen when a…
Oh, make us worthy, God, we pray, To do thy service Here to-day; Endow us with
’Twas hard to think that he must go, We knew that we should miss him so, We thought that he must always stay Beside us, laughing, day by day; That he must never know the care
Mothers and wives, ’tis the call to arms That the bugler yonder prepares to sound… We stand on the brink of war’s alarms And your men may lie on a blood-stained ground.
These are the days when little thoughts Must cease men’s minds to occupy; The nation needs men’s larger creeds, Big men must answer to her cry; No longer selfish ways we tread,
His name was Kelly Ingram; he was Alab… And he whistled ‘Yankee Doodle,’ as he… There was laughter in his make-up, there… And he knew the best traditions and the… Now there’s not a heart among us but sho…
Oh, mother, be you brave of heart and ke… your bright eyes shining; Some day the smiles of joy shall start a… shall cease repining. Beyond the dim and distant line the days…
If he should meet a mother there Along some winding Flanders road, No extra touch of grief or care He’ll add unto her heavy load. But he will kindly take her arm
I don’t know what they’ll put him at, or… his post may be; I cannot guess the task that waits for h… the sea, But I have known him through the years,…
(Who had “Return if Possible” Orders.) “You’ve heard a good deal of the telepho… wires,” he said as we sat at our ease, And talked of the struggle that’s taking… lives in these terrible days o’er the se…
TWe used to think her frivolous—you kno… parents are, A little quick to see the faults and pet… that mar The girl their son is fond of and may ch…
To serve my country day by day At any humble post I may; To honor and respect her flag, To live the traits of which I brag; To be American in deed
His room is as it used to be Before he went away, The walls still keep the pennants he Brought home but yesterday. The picture of his baseball team
It’s a bigger thing you’re doing than th… We have lived the days of pleasure; now… And upon your manly shoulders fall the b… Yours must be the sacrifices of the tria… Oh, I don’t know how to say it, but I’l…
Your dream and my dream is not that we s… But that our children after us shall kno… For all we care about ourselves—a crust… A place to sleep and clothes to wear is… We’d tramp the world on sunny days, both…
The glory of a soldier—and a soldier’s n… Is the way he does his duty without grum… His work’s not always pleasant, but he d… And he grabs a bit of glory when he’s fi… But the lesson that he teaches every day…
Get off your downy cots of ease, There’s work that must be done. Great danger’s riding on the seas. The storm is coming on. Don’t think that it will quickly pass.
His mother’s eyes are saddened, and her… are stained with tears, And I’m facing now the struggle that I’… dreaded through the years; For the boy that was our baby has been c…
Little mother, life’s adventure calls yo… Yet he will return to you on some bright… Dry your tears and cease to sigh, keep y… Brave and strong he will come back in a… Little mother, heed them not—they who pr…
Since men with life must purchase life And some must die that more may live, Unto the Great Cashier of strife A fine accounting let me give. Perhaps to-morrow I shall stand
We’ve raised a flagpole on the farm And flung Old Glory to the sky, And it’s another touch of charm That seems to cheer the passer-by, But more than that, no matter where
The mother on the sidewalk as the troops… Is the mother of Old Glory that is wavi… Men have fought to keep it splendid, men… But that flag was born of woman and her… ’Tis her sacrifice has made it, and once…
We are done with little thinking and we’… We are done with petty conduct and we’re… We have grown to men and women, and we’v… And to-day we are a people with a larger… In a big way we must labor, if our Flag…
He is marching dusty highways and he’s r… His eyes are clear and shining and his m… He is wearing Yankee khaki and a health… And the chap that we are backing is the… He’s no parlour dude, a-prancing, he’s n…
Aye, we will follow the Flag Wherever she goes, Into the tropic sun, Into the northern snows; Go where the guns ring out
We’ve had a letter from the boy, And oh, the gladness and the joy It brought to us! We read it o’er I’d say a dozen times or more. We laughed until the teardrops fell
They have said you needn’t go to the fro… They have left you with your women and y… They have spared you from the crash of t… And the horrors and the madness and the… But it’s your fight, just the same, and…
We know not where the path may lead nor… The clouds are dark above us now, the fu… And yet when all the storms have passed,… We shall be prouder of our flag than we… We could not longer idle stay, spectator…
God grant me kindly thought And patience through the day, And in the things I’ve wrought Let no man living say That hate’s grim mark has stained
One came to the house with a pretty spee… ‘It’s all for the best,' said he, And I know that he sought my heart to r… And I know that he grieved with me. But I was too full of my sorrow then
They say we must not hate, nor fight in… I’ve thought it over many a solemn hour, And cannot mildly view the man or state That has no thought, save only to be gre… I cannot love the creature drunk with po…
He isn’t long on speeches. At the banqu… Could name a dozen places where he would… He’s not one for fuss and feathers or fo… But he’s busy every minute when he’s got… And you’ll find him in the open, fightin…
It is better to die for the flag, For its red and its white and its blue, Than to hang back and shirk and to lag And let the flag sink out of view. It is better to give up this life
Little woman, hourly sitting, Something for a soldier knitting, What in fancy can you see? Many pictures come to me Through the stitch that now you’re makin…
He writes to us most every day, and how… I can’t describe the joys with which his… He says the military life is not of his… He’s only soldiering to-day to give the… But since he’s in the army now and doing…
He will not come to him this year with a… An imitation Santa Claus must serve his… Last year he heard the reindeers paw the… And as he dreamed the kindly saint tip-t… But Christmas Eve he will not come by a…
Show the flag and let it wave As a symbol of the brave Let it float upon the breeze As a sign for each who sees That beneath it, where it rides,
The boys upon the honor roll, God bless… God watch them when they sleep at night,… We’ve stamped their names upon our walls… Our brave boys and our splendid boys who… Oh, here are sons of mothers fair and fa…
A touch of the plain and the prairie, A bit of the Motherland, too; A strain of the fur-trapper wary, A blend of the old and the new; A bit of the pioneer splendor
Time was the cry went round the world: America for freedom speaks, A new flag is to-day unfurled, An eagle on the mountain shrieks, A king is failing on his throne,
It’s coming time for planting in that li… Where the lad and I made merry as he fo… The sun is getting higher, and the skies… And I’m hungry for the garden, and I wi… But it’s tramp, tramp, tramp,
He has heard his country calling, and ha… And he’s doing something bigger than his… He has caught a greater vision than the… And I know to-day I’m prouder of than s… His speech is soft and vibrant with the…
‘Dear Father,’ he wrote me from Somewhe… Where he’s waiting with Pershing to lea… ‘There’s little the censor permits me to… Save the fact that I’m here and am happ… The French people cheered as we marched…
Out of it all shall come splendor and gl… Out of the madness and out of the sadnes… Clearer and finer the world shall arise. Why then keep sorrow and doubt in your e… Joy shall be ours when the warfare is ov…
Oh, we have shipped his Christmas box w… And he shall find the things he likes fr… But he must miss the kisses true and all… And he must miss the smiles of home upon… He’ll spend his Christmas 'neath the Fl…
God grant me these: the strength to do Some needed service here; The wisdom to be brave and true; The gift of vision clear, That in each task that comes to me
The country needs a man like you, It has a task for you to do. It has a job for you to face. Somewhere for you it has a place. Not all the slackers dodge the work
To keep in mind from day to day That I’m a soldier in the fray; That I must serve, from sun to sun, As well as he who bears a gun The flag that flies above us all,
Life is a struggle for peace, A longing for rest, A hope for the battles to cease, A dream for the best; And he is not living who stays
His comrades have enlisted, but his moth… His soul is sick with coward shame, his… His eyes no longer sparkle, and his brea… And I think that she has lost him thoug… Oh, I’m sorry for the mother, but I’m s…
This I heard the Old Flag say As I passed it yesterday: ‘Months ago your friendly hands Fastened me on slender strands And with patriotic love
If it’s wrong to believe in the land tha… And to pray for Our Flag to the good G… If it’s wrong to believe that Our Count… That honor’s her standard, and truth is… If placing her first in our prayers and…
