N.B.—The only volumes of my Poems issues
with my approval in the British Empire are
published by Messrs. Gay & Hancock.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

FORWARD

The greater part of these verses dealing with the war were written in France during my recent seven months’ sojourn there, and for the purpose of using in entertainments given in camps and hospitals to thousands of American soldiers.

They were the result of coming into close contact with the soldiers’ mind and heart, and were intentionally expressed in the simplest manner, without any consideration of methods approved by modern critics. The fact that I have been asked to autograph scores of copies of many of these verses (and one of them to the extent of 350 copies) is more gratifying to me than would be the highest encomiums of the purely literary critic.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

London,
October 1918.

CONTENTS

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Thanksgiving [1]
The Brave Highland Laddies [3]
Men of the Sea [6]
Ode to the British Fleet [9]
The German Fleet [11]
Deep unto deep was calling [12]
The Song of the Allies [14]
Ten thousand men a day [16]
“America will not turn back” [18]
War [20]
The Hour [23]
The Message [25]
“Flowers of France” [29]
Our Atlas [34]
Camp Followers [37]
Come Back Clean [39]
Camouflage [41]
The Awakening [42]
The Khaki Boys who were not at the Front [44]
Time’s Hymn of Hate [46]
Dear Motherland of France [48]
The Spirit of Great Joan [50]
Speak [52]
The Girl of the U.S.A. [54]
Passing the Buck [56]
Song of the Aviator [57]
The Stevedores [59]
A Song of Home [61]
The Swan of Dijon [73]
Veils [65]
In France I saw a Hill [68]
American Boys, Hello! [70]
De Rochambeau [72]
After [74]
The Blasphemy of Guns [75]
The Crimes of Peace [78]
It May Be [82]
Then and Now [85]
Widows [89]
Conversation [93]
I, too [97]
He that hath ears [99]
Answers [101]
How is it? [104]
‘Let us give thanks’ [107]
The Black Sheep [109]
One by one [112]
Prayer [114]
Be not Dismayed [116]
Ascension [118]
The Deadliest Sin [121]
The Rainbow of Promise [124]
They shall not win [126]

THANKSGIVING