The Great War in Verse and Prose

by Unknown

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CONTENTS

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"For All We Have and Are"	Kipling, Rudyard	[1]
Instructions to the British Soldier	Kitchener, Lord	[3]
Pro Patria	Seaman, Sir Owen	[4]
Statement in House of Lords	Kitchener, Lord	[5]
Between Midnight and Morning	Seaman, Sir Owen	[7]
Vigil, The	Newbolt, Sir Henry	[7]
Hour, The	Fagan, James Bernard	[9]
Off Heligoland	Middleton, J. E.	[10]
Call to Arms, A	Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H.	[11]
Australia to England	Strong, Archibald	[15]
Extract from Speech	Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston	[16]
What of the Fight?	Burton, Claude E. C. H.	[17]
Man of the Marne, The	Carman, Bliss	[18]
Telegram from King Albert to King George		[20]
India to England	Nizamat Jung	[21]
"A Scrap of Paper"	Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David	[22]
Tribute, The	Begbie, Harold	[27]
From Speech at the Guildhall	Kitchener, Lord	[28]
Kaiser, The	Holland, Norah	[30]
From Debate on the Address	Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H.	[31]
Canadian, The	Middleton, J. E.	[31]
To Belgium in Exile	Seaman, Sir Owen	[33]
Chant of Love for England, A	Cone, Helen Gray	[34]
"Canadians—Canadians—That's All!"	Peat, Private Harold R.	[35]
From "A Canadian Twilight"	Trotter, Bernard Freeman	[39]
We Were Men of the Furrow	Stead, Robert J. C.	[39]
Devon Men	Haselden, Percy	[42]
Chalk and Flint	"Punch"	[43]
Grave in Flanders, A	Scott, Frederick George	[45]
Into Battle	Grenfell, Julian	[46]
Christ in Flanders	L. W.	[48]
Blind Man and His Son, The	Cammaerts, Emile	[50]
Extract from "The War and the Soul"	Campbell, Rev. R. J.	[51]
Guards Came Through, The	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	[53]
Red Poppies in the Corn	Galbraith, W. Campbell	[55]
Extract from Lecture "How We Stand Now"	Murray, Gilbert	[56]
Lusitania	Begbie, Harold	[59]
White Ships and the Red, The	Kilmer, Joyce	[61]
From Speech at the Guildhall	Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert	[64]
Red Cross Nurse, The	Carman, Bliss	[66]
	Finley, John	[66]
	Seaman, Sir Owen	[66]
Edith Cavell	Oxenham, John	[67]
Soldier, The	Brooke, Rupert	[68]
From "The Meaning of War"	Bergson, Henri Louis	[69]
To Our Dead	Gosse, Edmund	[71]
Dead, The	Brooke, Rupert	[72]
In a Belgian Garden	Call, F. O.	[72]
"That Have No Doubts"	"Klaxon"	[74]
On the Rue du Bois	Scott, Frederick George	[75]
From "Fear God and Take Your Own Part"	Roosevelt, Theodore	[77]
To the Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener	Seaman, Sir Owen	[79]
Kitchener of Khartoum	Stead, Robert J. C.	[80]
Kitchener's March	Burr, Amelia Josephine	[81]
Crown of Empire, The	Scott, Frederick George	[83]
"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"	Seeger, Alan	[84]
In Memoriam	Cone, Helen Gray	[85]
Guns of Verdun	Chalmers, Patrick R.	[86]
Verdun	Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David	[87]
For the Fallen	Binyon, Laurence	[88]
In Flanders Fields	McCrae, John	[90]
Anxious Dead, The	McCrae, John	[91]
From Speech on Becoming Premier	Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David	[92]
Subalterns	Huxley, Mildred	[93]
Searchlights, The	Noyes, Alfred	[94]
The Sea is His	Vernède, R. E.	[96]
Volunteer	Asquith, Herbert	[98]
From Message to Congress	Wilson, Woodrow	[99]
From "Vimy Ridge"	Gordon, Alfred	[101]
Silent Toast, The	Scott, Frederick George	[102]
Prospice	Sullivan, Alan	[103]
Outer Guard, The	Oxenham, John	[105]
Small Craft	Fox-Smith, C.	[106]
Extract from Speech in Toronto	Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur J.	[109]
Spires of Oxford, The	Letts, W. M.	[110]
Extract from Speech in Ottawa	Viviani, Monsieur	[112]
Name of France, The	Van Dyke, Henry	[113]
Extract from Speech in Montreal	Joffre, Marshal	[114]
For the Men at the Front	Oxenham, John	[115]
What Has Britain Done?	Hodgins, Rev. F. B.	[117]
Extract from Speech on Third Anniversary of Declaration of War	Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David	[118]
What Has England Done?	Owens, Vilda Sauvage	[120]
In the Morning	"Klaxon"	[122]
Order to the Canadian Army Corps	Currie, Sir Arthur W.	[124]
Soul of a Nation, The	Seaman, Sir Owen	[125]
Living Line, The	Begbie, Harold	[126]
Historic Order, An	Haig, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas	[129]
Guns in Sussex, The	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	[130]
To a Soldier in Hospital	Letts, W. M.	[131]
Speech Delivered before August Offensive, 1918	Currie, Sir Arthur W.	[134]
Air-men, The	Holland, Norah	[137]
Extracts from Speech	Taft, Wm. Howard	[138]
Message to the Navy	King George	[138]
Sky Signs	"Klaxon"	[139]
Order to the Canadians after the Capture of Mons	Currie, Sir Arthur W.	[141]
Tribute	Huxley, Mildred	[143]
On the Navy	Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston	[144]
Debt Unpayable, The	Bourdillon, F. W.	[146]
Speech in Paris	King George	[147]
Britain's Day	Pershing, General J. J.	[149]
Gifts From the Dead	Lulham, P. Habberton	[150]
Woman's Toll, The	Duffin, Ruth	[151]
Pilgrims	Service, Robert W.	[152]
Epitaphs for the Slain	Edmonds, J. M.	[153]
Extract from Official Report	Haig, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas	[154]
Speech at Opening of Paris Conference	Poincaré, Raymond	[155]
National Anthem		[160]

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The selections contained in this book make up a sequence which records the history of the Great War from the stirring days of August, 1914, to the opening of the Peace Conference in January, 1919. These selections of verse and prose are arranged, not necessarily in chronological order, but still with a view to indicate approximately the historic succession of great events and the varying moods of those authors and speakers who have been the voices of the allied nations during the fifty-two months of warfare.

Although this anthology has been prepared for the use of schools, the plan of selection and arrangement has made it impracticable to grade the poems and extracts to suit the capacities of pupils of different ages. The judgment of the teacher must determine what is suitable for one grade and what for another. Many of the poems and some of the prose extracts will be found too difficult for young pupils.

Due acknowledgments have been made throughout the book to the authors and publishers who have generously made it possible to bring together so valuable a collection of the literature of the War. The meed of gratitude due to all the writers represented here can never be adequately paid. Special mention is made of Nizamat Jung, Native Judge of the High Court of Hyderabad, who has given expression to the wonderful loyalty of the races of teeming India, which have poured out treasure and blood without stint in defence of their Emperor-King.

A sufficient number of copies of this book should be kept in all school libraries; and it is suggested that the poems and prose extracts should be used in the reading classes, as often as is expedient, instead of the authorized Readers.