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You may delve down to rock for your foundation piers,You may go with your steel to the skyYou may purchase the best of the thought of the years,And..

When he was just a lad in school,He used to sit around and foolAnd watch the clock and say:'I can't see that I'll ever needThis stuff the teacher..

Better than land or gold or tradeAre a high ideal and a purpose true;Better than all of the wealth we've madeIs the work for others that now we..

Here's to you, little mother,With your boy so far away;May the joy of service smotherAll your grief this Christmas day;May the magic of his..

Get off your downy cots of ease,There's work that must be done.Great danger's riding on the seas.The storm is coming on.Don't think that it will..

'TELL us a story,' comes the cryFrom little lips when nights are cold,And in the grate the flames leap high.'Tell us a tale of pirates bold,Or..

His room is as it used to beBefore he went away,The walls still keep the pennants heBrought home but yesterday.The picture of his baseball teamStill..

The officers' friend is the waiter at camp.In the night air 'twas cold and was bitterly damp,And they asked me to dine, which I readily did,For at..

When I'm weary of argument wordyAnd tired of continuous debate,When the speaker like some hurdy gurdy,Which carries on early and late,Keeps up a..

The men are talking peace at 'ome, but 'ere we're talking fight,There's many a little debt we've got to square;A sniper sent a bullet through my..

It's a bigger thing you're doing than the most of us have done;We have lived the days of pleasure; now the gray days have begun,And upon your manly..

It's funny when a feller wants to do his little bit,And wants to wear a uniform and lug a soldier's kit,And ain't afraid of submarines nor mines that..

It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Though of all my possesions, there's none can..

The glory of a soldier—and a soldier's not a saint—Is the way he does his duty without grumbling or complaint;His work's not always pleasant, but he..

The Proof Of WorthThough victory's proof of the skill you possess,Defeat is the proof of your grit;A weakling can smile in his days of success,But at..

I follow a famous father,His honor is mine to wear;He gave me a name that was free from shame,A name he was proud to bear.He lived in the morning..

He's doing double duty now;Time's silver gleams upon his brow,And there are lines upon his faceWhich only passing years can trace.And yet he's turned..

Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazardsto try out our souls?Then may you find us undaunted; determined toget to our goals.Now, white are the..

I See You've Travelled SomeWherever you may chance to be — wherever you may roam,Far away in foreign lands; or just at home sweet home;It always..

Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,But that our children after us shall know life at its best;For all we care about ourselves—a crust..

If I could have my wish to-night it would not be for wealth or fame,It would not be for some delight that men who live in luxury claim,But it would..

IT 'S human for a womanTo enjoy a little cry;Though a man will grin and bear 'emAnd pass little troubles by,A woman seeks a pillowAnd her face she..

Mine is a song of hopeFor the days that lie before;For the grander thingsThe morrow bringsWhen the struggle days are o'er.Dark be the clouds..

Things mostly happen for the best.However hard it seems to-day,When some fond plan has gone astrayOr what you've wished for most is lostAn' you sit..

She put her arms about my neck,And whispered low to me:'I'm thinking daddy, dear, how niceAnd lovely it would beIf only every little girlIn all this..