# Patriotic pieces from the Great War

PATRIOTIC PIECES
FROM
THE GREAT WAR
COMPILED BY EDNA D. JONES
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA
1918
COPYRIGHT 1918 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
Patriotic Pieces From the Great War
CONTENTS
| | | PAGE |
| A PRAYER IN KHAKI | Robert Garland | 7 |
| SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM | Katherine Lee Bates | 8 |
| MY SAILOR BOY | Viola Brothers Shore | 9 |
| THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS | Sergeant Wm. C. Pryor, Q. M. C. | 10 |
| IT IS WELL WITH THE CHILD | Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer | 12 |
| THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO THE NATIONAL ARMY | | 14 |
| THE WORKERS | Douglas Malloch | 15 |
| BELLS OF FLANDERS | Dominique Bonnaud | 17 |
| THE DRUMS | Grif Alexander | 19 |
| FOR FRANCE | Florence Earle Coates | 22 |
| NEXT YEAR | Margaret Widdemer | 23 |
| THEN GIVE US WINGS | Anthony Euwer | 24 |
| IN FLANDERS FIELDS | Lt.-Col. John McCrae | 27 |
| THE SERVICE FLAG | William Herschell | 28 |
| PEACE WITH A SWORD | Abbie Farwell Brown | 30 |
| SQUARING OURSELVES | James Montague | 32 |
| THE WOUNDED SOLDIER IN THE CONVENT | François Coppee | 34 |
| HARVEST IN FLANDERS | Louise Driscoll | 36 |
| HAY FEVER | | 38 |
| IN SAN FRANCISCO | Bernadine Hilty | 40 ​ |
| OUR YOUTH | Arthur Hobson Quinn | 44 |
| THE UNFURLING OF THE FLAG | Clara Endicott Sears | 46 |
| MARCHING FORTH TO WAR | | 48 |
| THE SPIRIT OF '17 | Mary Herrick Smith | 50 |
| IN WARTIME | Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer | 55 |
| THE MISCREANT | Dr. Felix E. Schelling | 56 |
| THE LITTLE ONE-STAR FLAG | Damon Runyon | 59 |
| RISE UP! RISE UP, CRUSADERS! | Edward Van Zile | 61 |
| JUST THINKING | Hudson Hawley | 64 |
| THE STARS | Agnes McConnell Sligh | 66 |
| MY SON | Dr. James D. Hughes | 67 |
| SALUTATORY | Angele Maraval-Berthoin | 70 |
| ONLY A VOLUNTEER | Corporal Richard D. Irwin | 72 |
| THE SAILOR-MAN | M. A. DeWolf Howe | 73 |
| THE COST | Ethel Lloyd Patterson | 75 |
| THE EYES OF WAR | Chart Pitt | 78 |
| FILE THREE | | 79 |
| THE SOLDIER | Christopher Morley | 80 |
| OUR GIFT | Caroline Ticknor | 81 |
| ASLEEP BY THE IRISH SEA | Elizabeth Glendenning Ring | 82 |
| COLUMBIA COMES | Thomas Meek Butler | 83 |
| A NATION'S PRAYER FOR STRENGTH TO SERVE | | 84 |
| OLD GLORY | George B. Hynson | 87 |
| SCREENS | W. M. Letts | 88 |
| EFFICIENCY | Dr. Felix E. Schelling | 89 |
| SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE | Captain Blackall | 92 |
| THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER—WITH VARIATIONS | | 93 |
| ON TO VICTORY! | Theodore Roosevelt | 95 ​ |
| MIZPAH | Gertrude Stewart | 98 |
| THE FLAG | Dr. Felix E. Schelling | 100 |
| "HONEY" DRAWS THE LINE | | 101 |
| MARY | Irene McLeod | 102 |
| PRESIDENT WILSON'S FLAG DAY ADDRESS | | 106 |
| THE BELGIAN FLAG | E. Cammaerts | 110 |
| FLY A CLEAN FLAG | Edgar A. Guest | 112 |
| THE OLD ROAD TO PARADISE | Margaret Widdemer | 114 |
| AS THEY LEAVE US | Florence Earle Coates | 116 |
| "WE ARE OF ONE BLOOD" | Rev. C. L. McIrvine | 118 |
| THE TRUMPET CALL | Caroline Ticknor | 121 |
| THE MAN WHO CAN FIGHT AND SMILE | Norma Bright Carson | 124 |
| MAKERS OF THE FLAG | Franklin K. Lane | 125 |
| FATHER AND SON | Calvin Dill Wilson | 129 |
| THE PARADE | Minna Irving | 132 |
| THE NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS | Grace Hazard Conkling | 133 |
| TO FRANCE | Edwin Curran | 134 |
| LANGEMARCK AT YPRES | Wilfred Campbell | 136 |
| WHAT IS PATRIOTISM? | Agnes Repplier | 141 |
| THE WRIST WATCH MAN | Edgar A. Guest | 146 |
| GOD SPEED OUR SOLDIERS | George Frederic Viett | 148 |
| FORGET IT, SOLDIER! | C. F. R. | 149 |
| LA BASSÉE ROAD | Patrick MacGill | 151 |
| THE NEW BANNER | Katrina Trask | 153 |
| THE COMB BAND | Berton Braley | 155 |
| TO THE GLORY OF THE NEEDLE | | 157 |
| FIRST U. S. SOLDIER DEAD BURIED IN FRANCE | | 159 |
| THE HUN WITH THE GUN | Will P. Snyder | 161 |
| OUT OF FLANDERS | James Norman Hall | 162 ​ |
| NO MAN'S LAND | J. Knight-Adkin | 165 |
| IN SERVICE | J. E. Evans | 167 |
| THE AMERICAN | Hawthorne Daniel | 169 |
| CONSOLATION | | 177 |
| OFF DUTY | Patrick MacGill | 179 |
| LITTLE MOTHER | Everard Jack Appleton | 181 |
| THE MOTHER ON THE SIDEWALK | Edgar A. Guest | 183 |
| SINCE YOU WENT AWAY | Allison Brown | 185 |
| MARCHING AWAY | Emma A. E. Lente | 187 |
| THE PRAYER | Amelia Josephine Burr | 189 |
| ON ACTIVE SERVICE | Patrick MacGill | 192 |
| THE AMERICANS COME! | Elizabeth A. Wilbur | 194 |
| TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE | Ducan Campbell Scott | 195 |
| AMERICA GOES IN SINGING | | 197 |
| THE KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS | William Herschell | 200 |
| RHEIMS | Margaret Steele Anderson | 202 |
| MATEY | Patrick MacGill | 205 |
| THE OHIO MEN | Edwin Curran | 206 |
| A CAROL FROM FLANDERS | Frederick Niven | 208 |
| THE RIDERS | Herman Hagedorn | 210 |
| THE CONVERSATION BOOK | | 214 |
| THE SOLDIER'S MOTHER | | 216 |
| IN PRAISE OF RIGHTEOUS WAR | Walter Malone | 218 |
| YOUR LAD AND MY LAD | Randall Parrish | 221 |
| BOTH WORSHIPPED THE SAME GREAT NAME | | 223 |