Soldiers of the light

BY HELEN GRAY CONE
BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS 1911
Copyright, 1910, by Helen Gray Cone
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Many of the poems included in this volume are used through the courteous permission of the editors of The Century Magazine , The Churchman , The Atlantic Monthly , and Scribner’s Magazine , where they originally appeared.
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
“ Why of War, O thou that lovest rather
Peace of roses in a rain-sweet garden,
Peace of moonlit silver-heaving waters,
All the lovely looks of little children?
What strange mandate
Bids thee sing of War, who lovest these things?