Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

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Clara Barton—The millions she has blest.

Kate Brownlee Sherwood.

With the gleam of the scarlet she walks with the immortals now.

Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette.

One of the few immortal names. Fitz-Greene Halleck.

Oh! the love of woman, the love of woman! no coldness, no neglect, no harshness, no cruelty can extinguish thee! Like the fabled lamp in the sepulchre, thou sheddest thy pure light in the human heart, where everything around thee is dead forever.

Will Carleton.

Will Carleton—author of “The New Church Organ,” “Betsy and I are Out,” “Over the Hill to the Poor-house,” and many others. The Author.

Thy voice sounds like a prophet’s word;

And in its hollow tones are heard

The thanks of millions yet to be.

Fitz-Greene Halleck.