# Fifes and Drums

FIFES
AND
DRUMS
Poems of America at War
The VIGILANTES Books
FIFES AND DRUMS
A COLLECTION OF POEMS
OF AMERICA AT WAR
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOREWORD
These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by those who have banded themselves together under the name of The Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war. They are presented to the public in the belief that men and women in every corner of the Union will find reflected in them some of the love and aspiration they themselves are experiencing for their re-discovered country.
CONTENTS
| | | PAGE |
| America Unafraid | Charles Hanson Towne | 13 |
| The Ultimate Argument | Arthur Guiterman | 16 |
| The Song | Marion Couthouy Smith | 18 |
| Peace with a Sword | Abbie Farwell Brown | 22 |
| The Pacifist's Lament | Don Marquis | 24 |
| At Any Price | Lee Wilson Dodd | 25 |
| The Answer | Marion Couthouy Smith | 29 |
| In Time of Danger | Clinton Scollard | 31 |
| To America | Lee Wilson Dodd | 33 |
| Ode to Tonsilitis | Wallace Irwin | 35 |
| April 2nd | Theodosia Garrison | 37 |
| The Flag Goes Up | Amelia Josephine Burr | 38 |
| Fall In! | Amelia Josephine Burr | 40 |
| Black Flag! | Edith M. Thomas | 42 |
| A Song of Democracy | Lee Wilson Dodd | 44 |
| Our Aim | Louis How | 47 |
| The Binding of the Beast | George Sterling | 49 |
| The Flag | George E. Woodberry | 53 |
| To All Americans | Amelia Josephine Burr | 55 ​ |
| War Song of America | Grantland Rice | 57 |
| Processional | Cale Young Rice | 59 |
| Omniscient Mr. Fall | Lee Wilson Dodd | 61 |
| The Stars and Stripes | Theodosia Garrison | 64 |
| The German-American | Katherine Lee Bates | 66 |
| Our Bargain | Amelia Josephine Burr | 68 |
| Blow, O Ye Bugles | Clinton Scollard | 70 |
| America in Arms | Percy MacKaye | 71 |
| To the Allies | Laura E. Richards | 74 |
| Of Kings | Clinton Scollard | 76 |
| The Kaiser | Florence Earle Coates | 77 |
| The Return of the Exiles | George E. Woodberry | 79 |
| Messengers | Florence Mary Bennett | 80 |
| Shoulder to Shoulder | Clinton Scollard | 82 |
| The Roundabout Committee and the Circumlocution Board | Wallace Irwin | 84 |
| America | Lee Wilson Dodd | 88 |
| America, To Arms! | Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff | 91 |
| A Lesson in Manners | Theodosia Garrison | 92 |
| Come to the Colors | Laura E. Richards | 94 |
| Our Flag in France | Marion Couthouy Smith | 96 |
| The American Flag | Theodosia Garrison | 98 |
| The Young Blood Speaks | Mary Farley Sanborn | 100 ​ |
| Marching with Papa Joffre | Percy MacKaye | 102 |
| It Is Better | Louis How | 105 |
| Enlisted | Willard Wattles | 107 |
| Currency | M. E. Buhler | 110 |
| To Our Women | Amelia Josephine Burr | 111 |
| To the Mothers | Marion Couthouy Smith | 113 |
| The Girls They Left Behind Them | Theodosia Garrison | 115 |
| A French Captain | Amelia Josephine Burr | 117 |
| The Recruit | Reginald Wright Kauffman | 119 |
| Prayer During Battle | Hermann Hagedorn | 121 |
| They Also Serve | Faith Baldwin | 122 |
| His Job | Amelia Josephine Burr | 124 |
| Concerning Planting | John Curtis Underwood | 126 |
| Spades Are Trumps! | John Kemble | 130 |
| The War of Bread | Edith M. Thomas | 132 |
| Columbia's Shop | Theodosia Garrison | 134 |
| The Childless | Amelia Josephine Burr | 136 |
| The Test | Amelia Josephine Burr | 138 |
| A Song of Confidence | Theodosia Garrison | 139 |
| "Ride, Vigilantes!" | Edith M. Thomas | 141 |
Surely the time for making songs has come Now that the Spring is in the air again. Trees blossom though men bleed; and after rain The robins hop; and soon the bees will hum.
Long was the winter, long our lips were dumb. Long under snow our loyal dreams have lain. Surely the time for making songs has come Now that the Spring is in the air again.
The Spring!—with bugles and a rumbling drum! Oh, builders of high music out of pain, Now is the hour with singing to make vain The boast of kings in Pandemonium!
Surely the time for making songs has come!
H. H.
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