| Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1916 - 180 pagine
...their bodies on battlefields, breathe each to each the same refrain: 7 gave my life for freedom—this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. The Fuller Sisters of England, now traveling in America, have adapted these lines to an impressive... | |
| 1917 - 188 pagine
...message ran : — Russia, in danger, needed every man To save her from the Teuton ; and was slain. / gave my life for freedom — This I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. SECOND SOUL. I was a Tyrolese, a mountaineer ; I gladly left my mountain home to fight Against the... | |
| 1917 - 542 pagine
...a note of the grim irony of it all, as in WN Ewer's Five Dead Men, with its pathetic refrain, — I gave my life for freedom — this I know : For those who bade me fight had told me so. It may be that the war will ultimately produce some great work that shall stir the world as only a... | |
| Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 pagine
...by foes Lusting her downfall, called me, and I rose Swift to the call — and died in fair Lorraine. 7 gave my life for freedom — this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. FIFTH SOUL — I worked in a great shipyard by the Clyde. There came a sudden word of wars declared,... | |
| Bertram Lloyd - 1918 - 120 pagine
...despot hurled His felon blow at France and at the world ; Then I went forth to Belgium and my doom. / gave my life for freedom — This I know : For those who bade me fight had told me so. FOURTH SOUL. I owned a vineyard by the wooded Main, Until the Fatherland, begirt by foes Lusting her... | |
| American Library Association. General Meeting - 1918 - 354 pagine
...Clyde, There came a sudden word of wars declared, 78 Asking our aid: I joined the ranks, and died. I gave my life for freedom — this I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. WN Ewer. Parts of President Wilson's speeches give form to the best spirit of war poetry and are real... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Victor L. Berger Investigation - 1919 - 2212 pagine
...mountain home to fight Against the brutal, treacherous Muscovite, And died in Poland on a Cossack spear. I gave my life for freedom, this I know, For those who...world ; Then I went forth to Belgium, and my doom. I gave my life for freedom, this I know, For those who bade me fight had told me so. FOURTH SOUL. I... | |
| VICTOR L. BERGER - 1919 - 934 pagine
...despot hurled His felon blow at France and at the world; Then I went forth to Belgium, and my doom. I gave my life for freedom, this I know, For those who bade me fight had told me so. FOURTH SOUL. I owned a vineyard by the wooded Main Until the Fatherland, begirt by foes Lusting her... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1920 - 442 pagine
...declared, Of Belgium, peaceful, helpless, unprepared, Asking our aid; I joined the ranks, and died. / gave my life for freedom — this I know. For those who bade me fight had told me so. 1 From The Nation, London. A PEACE ARMY IN WAR-TIME ' Be Prepared," the Motto of the Boy Scouts, and... | |
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