Their Victory Won

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Their Victory Won by Florence Earle Coates Fugitive verse

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As rendered in Harper's Monthly Magazine (Dec 1918):

"Their Victory Won"
as it appears in the
December 1918 issue of
Harper's Monthly Magazine.

Their Victory Won BY FLORENCE EARLE COATES WAN-VISAGED Azrael, in a darkened room, 'Mid stifled sobs and pleadings full of fear,    I first was made to know thy presence drear; And I supposed thee dweller of a tomb Where quickly fade all fairest things that bloom:    All loves, ambitions, dreams, that men hold dear.    But now, O Death, beholding thee more near, How changed thy look! how glorified thy gloom! In the wide Open, 'neath a summer sky, Bending above thy chosen, where they lie    Upon the hard-won fields of Victory, This have they taught me—these so young, so brave, Who smiling gave their all, the world to save—    Life is not lovelier than death may be!

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