This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... crowns the just. Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can win us; Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away. BELGIUM'S DESTITUTE BELGIUM'S DESTITUTE By Thomas Hardy This poem, written as an appeal to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... crowns the just. Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can win us; Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away. BELGIUM'S DESTITUTE BELGIUM'S DESTITUTE By Thomas Hardy This poem, written as an appeal to the American people on behalf of the destitute people of Belgium by Thomas Hardy, the English writer, was given out by the American Commission for Relief in Belgium January 3, 1915. An Appeal To America Seven millions stand Emaciate, in that ancient Delta-land'.--We here, full charged with our own maimed and dead, And coiled in throbbing conflicts slow and sore, Can soothe how slight these ails unmerited Of souls forlorn upon the facing shore! Where naked, gaunt, in endless band on band Seven millions stand. No man can say To your great country that, with scant delay, You must, perforce, ease them in their sore need: We know that nearer first your duty lies; But--is it much to ask that you let plead Your loving kindness with you--wooing wise--Albeit that aught you owe and must repay No man can say? A SINGSONG OF ENGLAND "The fairest ever seen; They say men come to England To learn that grass is green. And Englishmen are now at war, All for this, they say, That they are free, and other men Must be as free as they. The Englishmen are shepherds, They plow, they sow and reap;' Their King may wear his leopards, His men must run their sheep. But now the crook and reaping-hook, The coulter and the sieve Are thrown aside: they take the gun That other men may live. Some Englishmen are fishermen, And other some are miners, And others man the shipping yards And build the ocean liners; But one and all will down tools And up with gun and sword To make a...
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Add this copy of A Book of Verse of the Great War to cart. $59.95, very good condition, Sold by BookScene rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hull, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Yale University Press.
