And sends you forth to keep undimmed
Amid the clouds of war
Her symbol on your banner bright—
Her white and steadfast star.
Amid the clouds of war
Her symbol on your banner bright—
Her white and steadfast star.
We'll watch for you beside the trails,
Where Glory keeps her score;
O khaki lads, our hearts would break
If you came back no more!
Where Glory keeps her score;
O khaki lads, our hearts would break
If you came back no more!
Would break, except we'd know the few
Left 'neath the Aztec skies
Had shown the whole, wide martial world
The way a hero dies.
Left 'neath the Aztec skies
Had shown the whole, wide martial world
The way a hero dies.
But you'll come back, O khaki lads,
And bring your shining shields,
And tell the girls how 'twas yeu fought
And won on glory's fields!
And bring your shining shields,
And tell the girls how 'twas yeu fought
And won on glory's fields!
HEART O' THE WORLD
HEART o' the world, heart o' the world, O France,
You hold it in your hollowed palm;
It came on roar of battle blast
Singing the great Homeric psalm.
You hold it in your hollowed palm;
It came on roar of battle blast
Singing the great Homeric psalm.
There England lays her scented rose,
There Afric's golden sands are poured,
And India, mystic of the age,
Gives of the splendor of her hoard.
There Afric's golden sands are poured,
And India, mystic of the age,
Gives of the splendor of her hoard.
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