To the Victor!
France crowns with laurel the dead American
aviator.
THO’ the American mother mourns across the seas for her hero son, who has touched the skies in France, the foster mother lays her laurel of glory on the bier of Youth, whose brave spirit in passing welds an eternal bond of sympathy and union to the end.
GERALDINE FARRAR.
June 23, 1918.
The Eyes of the Army
THE great poet of Victoria’s reign, in his wondrous vision of the future,
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;