O Freedom, Love and Sacrifice
You claimed our men, alas!
Yet everlasting peace is theirs
Who cried, "They shall not pass!"

ARTHUR A. PENN.

Reprinted by permission of M. Witmark & Sons, N. Y.
Publishers of the musical setting to this poem.

CONTENTS

[ FOREWORD TO REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION ]

[ I. WHERE HE WAS BORN ]

Stirring traditions and historic scenes which surrounded him in childhood.

[ II. BOYHOOD SURROUNDINGS ]

The horsemarkets at Tarbes. The school. Foch at twelve a student of Napoleon.

[ III. A YOUNG SOLDIER OF A LOST CAUSE ]