Armistice Day
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE BEST PROSE AND VERSE ON PATRIOTISM, THE GREAT WAR, THE ARMISTICE,- ITS HISTORY, OBSERVANCE, SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE; VICTORY, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND HIS BROTHERS, AND PEACE. WITH FICTION, DRAMA, PAGEANTRY AND PROGRAMS FOR ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE.
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION ix
I
Patriotism ... Lyman Abbot 3
America the Beuatiful .Katherine Lee Bates 4
What Americans believe In, Charles W.Eliot 6
Soldiers of Freedom . . Woodrow Wilson 9
Relinquishing .... Theda Kenyon 10
What is Patriotism? . . . Agnes Repplier 11
To My Country..Marguerite 15
Self-Sacrifice....Woodrow Wilson 16
Stanza's On Freedom..James Russell Lowell 16
II
WAR
The President'S War Message,
Woodrow Wilson 21
Rehmies Cathedral. Grace Howard Conkling 25
Draw the Sword, O Republic,
Edgar Lee Masters 26
From President Wilson's War Proclamation 28
Marching Song.. Dana Burnet 31
American Goes in Singing,
(From the Phildelphia Public Ledger) 33
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I have a Rendezvous with Death,Alan Seeger 36
The Man of the Marne..Bliss Carman 37
Letter by an American Oficer.Anonymous 39
The Hero of Vimy . Brent Dow Allinson
The Look in Their Eyes, Robert Haven Schauffler
Comrades in a Common Cause Bishop Brent
The Nightingales of Flanders,Grace Howard Conkling
Paris Again..... (From Punch)
At Gallipoli.... John Masefield
Captain Guynemer ... Florence Earle Coates
From Letters and Diary ... Alan Seeger
FiveSouls ....... W.H. Ewer
April on the Battlefields.Leona Speyer
Front Line .... Willam Rose Benet
Eagle Youth .... Karle Wilson Baker
Prayer in the Trenchs, Brent Dow Allinson
De Profundis,Brent Dow Allinson
V.A.D......(From Punch)
Christmas 1917 . . .Brent Dow Allinson
The Red Country . William Rose Benet
The White Comrade ,Robert Haven Schauffler
III
THE ARMISTICE
Every One Sang . . . Seigfired Sasson
The Signing of the Armistice, (From The Independent
Armistice Day.....Author: Angelo Parti
Armistice Day, 1918-1928,Author: Nancy Byrd Turner
The Armistice (Full Text as Signed on November 11,1918)
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Earth Song .... David McKee Wright
The Day Of Glory... Dorothy Canfield
Armistice Day,1926....Lucia Trent
The Last Shot..(From The Independent)
Peace at Morning....Dana Burnet
Armistice Day (Tribune),
(From New York Herald Tribune )
How America Finished..Gregory Mason
The Great Armistice,
Robert Haven Schauffler
"A Green Hill Far Away" . John Glasworthy
IV
SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY
Suggested Address for Use vy Legion Speaker On Armistice Day,
The American Legion
A Non-Denmoninational Prayer for Armistice Day.... Jewish Welfare Board
WHEN POPPIES BLOOM AGAIN,
Henry Albert Philips
The War Thus Comes to an End,
Woodrow Wilson
Armistice Day; Lest We Forget,
Alma Lundman
Two Silences . . Robert Haven Schauffler
Message of Mrashal Ferdinand Foch to the American Legion ,November 11,1921
Lest We Forget....Curtis Wheeler
Marshal Foch's Armistice Day Message to America, 1926,
Reported by Stephane Lauzanne
Saleca Feraum ..Willam Ellery Lenard
V VICTORY
Victory Bells ... Grace Howard Conkling
Psalm XLVI ..
Clean Hands .... Austin Dobson
Best left Behind . John Chipman Farrar
Stacking the Needles .. Theda Kenyon
America's Welcome Home.Henry Van Dyke
The Fruits of Victory,
William Howard Taft
The New Victory . . Margaret Widdener
From a Song of Victory . Edwin Markham
VI
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND HIS BROTHERS
A Dead Warrior ...Laurence Housman
Unknown ..... Bruce Barton
May Night (Leonard) .... William Ellery Leonard
Armstice .... Charles Buxton Going
To the Dead Doughboys
Author:William Ellory Leonard
The Unknown ..... E.O. Laughlin
All This is Ended ....Rupert Brooke
Our Honored Dead . Henry Ward Beecher
The Unknown .... Harry Kemp
The Land .... Maxwell Struthers Burt
To the Canadian Mothers,
Duncan Campbell Scot
The Unknown Soldier Honored by England.
Author: Sir Philip Gibbs
Solider, Rest ..... Sir Walter Scott
The Fallen ... Duncan Campbell Scot
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The Old Soilder... Katherine Tynan
The Dead ...... Rupert Brooke
Flanders Poppies ...... Ian Colvin
In Flanders Fields .... John McCrae
The Bivouac of the Dead . Theodore O'Hara
Aes Triplex ... Robert Louis Stevenson
After Battle .. Duncan Campbell Scott
The Young Dead . Maxwell Struthers Burt
Hymn for the Victorius Dead,
Herman Hagedorn,
A Monument for the Soldiers
James Whitcomb Riley
The Soldier .... Rupert Brooke
For Thee they died .. John Drinkwater
Address of Major General Fox Conner
The Young Dead ... Edith Wharton
The Unknown Soldier ... Angelo Patri
Before Marching and After ... Thomas Hardy
VII
PEACE
Peace .. George Washington
Peace .. Rupert Brooke
I Would that Wars Would Cease,
Alfred Tennyson
Peace ....... Woodrow Wilson
Peace at too Great a Price
Woodrow Wilson
Love Honor Only Better Than Peace,
Woodrow Wilson
The Spirit of America is Peace,
Woodrow Wilson
Activities in Peace ... Woodrow Wilson
The Basis of Peace ... Woodrow Wilson
Friendship Breeds Peace . Woodrow Wilson
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| Friendship Breeds Peace | Woodrow Wilson | 290 |
| Universal Peace Movement | Woodrow Wilson | 290 |
| "Fixed Desire of the Human Heart," | Woodrow Wilson | 291 |
| League of Nations | Nancy Byrd Turner | 292 |
| Vale—Atque Salve | M. A. De Wolfe Howe | 293 |
| The Known Soldier | M. A. De Wolfe Howe | 294 |
| Disarmament | John Greenleaf Whittier | 295 |
| To Peace | Katharine Lee Bates | 296 |
| Re-Armament | M. A. De Wolfe Howe | 297 |
| The Path to Peace | Sidney S. Robins | 299 |
| To Italy | Corinne Roosevelt Robinson | 300 |
| Prayer for the Spiritual Union of Mankind | Harry Emerson Fosdick | 301 |
| Peace | Harold Trowbridge Pulsifier | 302 |
| Aftermath | Siegfried Sassoon | 304 |
| The United States of Europe: An Interview with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler," | Edward Marshall | 306 |
| To Peace, With Victory | Corinne Roosevelt Robinson | 326 |
| The Thousand Years of Peace, | Alfred Tennyson | 327 |
| "When There is Peace" | Austin Dobson | 327 |
| From Nocturne in a Library | Arthur Davison Ficke | 328 |
| Love, Give me the Feel of To-morrow, | Ralph Cheyney | 330 |
| Pacifists | M. A. De Wolfe Howe | 331 |
| These Ten Years Since We Went to War, | (From The New York Evening Post) | 332 |
| Quotations for Peace Day, | From the Scriptures | 336 |
| After | Florence Earle Coates | 337 |
| Sew the Flags Together | Vachel Lindsay | 338 |
| The Christ of the Andes, | Edwin Markham | 340 |
| The Christ of the Andes | Anna P. Hannum | 342 |
| The Universal Peace | Alfred Tennyson | 348 |
VIII
STORIES
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| The Call | O. W. Firkings | 353 |
| The Contract of Corporal Twing | Solon K. Stewart | 364 |
| The Image | Edward H. Sothern | 392 |
IX
PLAYS AND A PAGEANTRY
| The Unseen Host | Percival Wilde | 407 |
| They Just Won't Talk | Mary Katherine Reely | 420 |
| The Crowning of Peace | Nora Archibald Smith | 434 |
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PROGRAMS FOR ARMISTICE DAY
| Program | Arranged by National Americanism Commission, American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana | 447 |
| Programs | Arranged by Someple and Others | 448 |
| Programs | Suggested by Mary E. Hazeltine, Library School of the University of Wisconsin | 453 |
| Program for the Celebration of Armistice Day | Suggested by The American Legion National Americanism Commission | 455 |
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.
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