Excerpt from The Retinue and Other Poems
Soldiers of Freedom
They veiled their souls with laughter
And many a mocking pose,
These lads who follow after
Wherever Freedom goes;
These lads we used to censure
For levity and ease,
On Freedom"s high adventure
Go shining overseas.
Our springing tears adore them,
These boys at school and play,
Fair-fortuned years before them,
Alas! but yesterday;
Divine with sudden splendor
- Oh, how our eyes were blind! -
In careless self-surrender
They battle for mankind.
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