TWO HEROES.
Two heroes do the world’s insistent work ; One tushes in the battle’s blood and murk. And, knowing the foeman flics. In one rich moment dies. The other, on a path he long has feared, By bugle-blast and drum beat all uncheered. At duty’s chill behest Gives life to want and waste. For him. the battle hero high we pile The sculptured stone; his ringing name, the while. In praises and in songs Its lyric life prolongs. Lor the other, we fashion a heavvn of late reward; His life, all dark, and desolate, and hard, Down to oblivion goes,— Unless some great God knows! Richard Watson Gilder,
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White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 294, 18 December 1919, Page 9
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108TWO HEROES. White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 294, 18 December 1919, Page 9
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