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• Thanksgiving

  Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice,
  An' eatin' an' laughin' with folks of your choice;

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Show the Flag

  Show the flag and let it wave
  As a symbol of the brave

  30 lines
• Constant Beauty

  It's good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,
  It's good to see the lilacs bloom as lovely as of old.

  16 lines, 6 comments
• A Patriotic Creed

  To serve my country day by day
  At any humble post I may;

  24 lines, 1 comment
• The Mother On The Sidewalk

  The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by
  Is the mother of Old Glory that is waving in the sky.

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• Memorial Day

  The finest tribute we can pay
  Unto our hero dead to-day,

  32 lines
• The Flag On The Farm

  We've raised a flagpole on the farm
      And flung Old Glory to the sky,

  50 lines
• Living

  If through the years we're not to do
  Much finer deeds than we have done;

  24 lines
• The Call

  Joy stands on the hilltops,
  Beckoning to me,

  24 lines
• A Wish

  I'd like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of
      joy again,

  49 lines, 3 comments
• The Big Deeds

  We are done with little thinking and we're done with little deeds,
  We are done with petty conduct and we're done with narrow creeds;

  18 lines
• Hate

  They say we must not hate, nor fight in hate.
  I've thought it over many a solemn hour,

  30 lines
• A Creed

  Lord let me not in service lag.
  Let me be worthy of our flag.

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• A Patriotic Wish

  I'd like to be the sort of man
  the flag could boast about;

  30 lines, 1 comment
• The Future

  "The worst is yet to come:"
  So wail the doubters glum,

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• Spring In The Trenches

  It's coming time for planting in that little patch of ground,
  Where the lad and I made merry as he followed me around;

  38 lines
• The Soldier On Crutches

  He came down the stairs on the laughter-filled grill
  Where patriots were eating and drinking their fill,

  30 lines, 2 comments
• Our Duty To Our Flag

  Less hate and greed
  Is what we need

  33 lines
• Runner McGee: (Who Had "Return if Possible" Orders)

  YOU'VE heard a good deal of the telephone wires,"
        He said as we sat at our ease,

  52 lines
• Warriors

  We all are warriors with sin. Crusading knights,
  we come to earth

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• The Alarm

  Get off your downy cots of ease,
  There's work that must be done.

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• Prophecy

  We shall thank our God for graces
  That we've never known before;

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• When the Drums Shall Cease to Beat

  When will the laughter ring again in the way that it used to do?
  Not till the soldiers come home again, not till the war is through.

  18 lines
• Selfishness

  Search history, my boy, and see
  What petty selfishness has done.

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• The Important Thing

  He was playing in the garden when we called him in for tea,
  But he didn't seem to hear us, so I went out there to see

  26 lines, 1 comment
• The Proof of Worth

  Though victory's proof of the skill you possess,
  Defeat is the proof of your grit;

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• Life's Slacker

  The saddest sort of death to die
  Would be to quit the game called life

  34 lines
• Reflection

  You have given me riches and ease,
  You have given me joys through the years,

  34 lines
• Drafted

  The biggest moment in our lives was that when first he cried,
  From that day unto this, for him, we've struggled side by side.

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• Ideals

  Better than land or gold or trade
  Are a high ideal and a purpose true;

  34 lines
• A Christmas Greeting

  Here's to you, little mother,
  With your boy so far away;

  34 lines
• The Complacent Slacker

  When he was just a lad in school,
  He used to sit around and fool

  34 lines
• The Waiter at the Camp

  The officers' friend is the waiter at camp.
  In the night air 'twas cold and was bitterly damp,

  26 lines
• A Father's Thoughts

  Because I am his father, they
  Expect me to put grief away;

  52 lines
• Easy Service

  When an empty sleeve or a sightless eye
  Or a legless form I see,

  43 lines
• The Unsettled Scores

  The men are talking peace at 'ome, but 'ere we're talking fight,
  There's many a little debt we've got to square;

  23 lines
• Taking His Place

  He's doing double duty now;
  Time's silver gleams upon his brow,

  42 lines
• Christmas, 1918

  They give their all, this Christmastide, that peace on earth shall reign;
  Upon the snows of Flanders now, brave blood has left its s

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• The New Year

  Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazards
  to try out our souls?

  34 lines
• The Friendly Greeting

  Oh, we have friends in England, and we have friends in France,
  And should we have to travel there through some strange circumstance,

  14 lines
• We Need a Few More Optimists

  We need a few more optimists,
  The kind that double up their fists

  42 lines
• A Patriot

  It's funny when a feller wants to do his little bit,
  And wants to wear a uniform and lug a soldier's kit,

  19 lines
• My Part

  I may never be a hero, I am past the limit now,
  There are pencil marks of silver Time has left upon my brow;

  26 lines
• The Chaplain

  He was just a small church parson when the war broke out, and he
  Looked and dressed and acted like all parsons that we see.

  26 lines
• Your Country Needs You

  The country needs a man like you,
  It has a task for you to do.

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• The Wrist Watch Man

  He is marching dusty highways and he's riding bitter trails,
  His eyes are clear and shining and his muscles hard as nails.

  23 lines
• The Boy Enlists

  His mother's eyes are saddened, and her cheeks
  are stained with tears,

  32 lines
• Exempt

  They have said you needn't go to the front to face the foe;
  They have left you with jour women and your children safe at home;

  25 lines
• We've Had a Letter From the Boy

  We've had a letter from the boy,
  And oh, the gladness and the joy

  42 lines

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  Published in 1918 in Chicago as First World War was coming to a close.

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