Poems of Optimism

Transcribed from the 1919 Gay and Hancock edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD.
34 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
LONDON
1919
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N.B. —The only volumes of my Poems issued with my approval in the British Empire are published by Messrs. Gay & Hancock.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Published 1913
Reprinted 1915, 1918, 1919
Our hearts were not set on fighting, We did not pant for the fray, And whatever wrongs need righting, We would not have met that way. But the way that has opened before us Leads on thro’ a blood-red field; And we swear by the great God o’er us, We will die, but we will not yield.