Armistice Day

by Anne Putnam Sanford and Robert Haven Schauffler

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ARMISTICE DAY

OUR AMERICAN HOLIDAYS

Edited by Robert Haven Schauffler

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ARMISTICE DAY

AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE BEST PROSE AND VERSE ON PATRIOTISM, THE GREAT WAR, THE ARMISTICE,—ITS HISTORY, OBSERVANCE, SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE; VICTORY, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND HIS BROTHERS, AND PEACE. WITH FICTION, DRAMA, PAGEANTRY AND PROGRAMS FOR ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE.

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

A. P. Sanford

AND

Robert Haven Schauffler

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1927

Copyright, 1927,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editors wish to acknowledge with sincere gratitude the generous help given them in the preparation of this volume by Miss Mary Emogene Hazeltine of the University of Wisconsin Library School (author of "Anniversaries and Holidays"); by Franklin Hopper, Chief of Circulation, New York Public Library; Miss Eugenia Krauss, Librarian of the Epiphany Branch, New York Public Library, and her staff; Mr. Edmund W. Miller, Librarian of the Free Public Library, Jersey City, N. J.; and by the many Boy Scout and American Legion officials, librarians and school teachers who have contributed suggestions and material.

For their kind permission to reprint copyrighted selections grateful acknowledgment is due to:

Allyn & Bacon: From "Soldiers of Freedom" by Woodrow Wilson, from "Hill's American Patriotism," and from "President Wilson's Proclamation."

Atlantic Monthly: "Flanders Poppies," by Ian Colvin.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company: "A Monument for the Soldiers," by James Whitcomb Riley, from "Green Fields and Running Brooks." Copyright, 1892-1919. Used by special permission of the publishers.

The Christian Century: "November 11th as a Day of Prayer."

The Committee on Peace and Service of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: "The Christ of the Andes," by Anna P. Hannum. Used by permission.

Doubleday, Page & Company: "Peace" from "Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson," by Woodrow Wilson, and "Self-Sacrifice" by Woodrow Wilson.

E. P. Dutton & Company: "Aftermath" and "The Armistice—Every One Sang" by permission, from "Picture-Show" by Seigfired Sasson. Copyright by E. P. Dutton & Company.

Eldridge Entertainment House, Inc., Franklin, Ohio: "Armistice Day: Lest We Forget," by Alma Lundman.

Harper & Brothers: "The Call," by O. W. Firkins.

Henry Holt and Company: "The Day of Glory" by Dorothy Canfield, from "The Day of Glory."

Houghton Mifflin Company: "For Thee They Died" by John Drinkwater; "The Look in Their Eyes" and "The White Comrade," by Robert Haven Schauffler; "Rheims Cathedral," by Grace Hazard Conkling, from "Afternoons in April." Reprinted by permission of, and by arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Independent: "The Last Shot" and "The Signing of the Armistice"; "The Fruits of Victory," by William Howard Taft. Used by permission.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: "Victory Bells" and "The Nightingales of Flanders." Reprinted from "Wilderness Songs" by Grace Hazard Conkling, by permission of and special arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., authorized publishers.

Little, Brown and Company: "The Unseen Host" from "The Unseen Host and Other War Plays" by Percival Wilde.

The Macmillan Company: "At Gallipoli" by John Masefield; "Sew the Flags Together" by Vachel Lindsay; "To My Country," by Marguerite Wilkinson. Used by permission.

March Brothers: From "Lest We Forget," published in book form by March Brothers, Lebanon, Ohio, at 40 cents.

McClelland and Stewart Limited: "After Battle," "The Fallen" and "To the Canadian Mothers—1914-1918," from "The Collected Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott." Used by permission of author and publishers.

Humphrey Milford: "When There is Peace" and "Clean Hands," by Austin Dobson. Used by permission of Humphrey Milford, publisher, and Mr. A. T. A. Dobson, acting for the Trustees.

The New York Evening Post: "These Ten Years Since We Went to War." Reprinted by permission.

The New York Herald Tribune: "Armistice Day," an editorial; "Lest We Forget: Armistice Day, 1926," by Curtis Wheeler. Reprinted by permission.

The New York Sun: "What Americans Believe In," by Charles W. Eliot. Reprinted by permission.

The New York Times: "Armistice," by Charles Buxton Going; "Armistice Day," an editorial; from "Interview with Dr. Nicholas Butler"; "Letter by an American Officer"; "The Unknown Soldier Honored by England," by Sir Philip Gibbs.

The North American Review: "The Call," by O. W. Firkins.

The Outlook: "How America Finished," by Gregory Mason; "Hymn for the Victorious Dead," by Hermann Hagedorn; "Patriotism," by Lyman Abbott; and "Peace," by Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer.

The Penn Publishing Company: "America Goes in Singing." Used by permission of and arrangement with The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa., publishers of "Patriotic Pieces from the Great War."

Punch: "Paris Again" and "V. A. D." Reprinted by permission of the "Proprietors of Punch."

Rand McNally & Company: "Comrades in a Common Cause," by Bishop Brent; "President Wilson's War Message."

Charles Scribner's Sons: "I Have a Rendezvous With Death" and "From Letters and Diary," by Alan Seeger; "The Image," by E. H. Sothern. Copyright, 1919, by Charles Scribner's Sons; "To Italy" and "To Peace, With Victory," by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; "The Land" and "The Young Dead," by Maxwell Struthers Burt; "Aes Triplex," by Robert Louis Stevenson; "Green Hill Far Away," by John Galsworthy, from "Tatterdemalion." Copyright, 1920, by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers.

The Viking Press: "Saecla Ferarum," from "Tutankhamen," by William Ellery Leonard. New York: The Viking Press. Copyright, 1924, by B. W. Huebsch, Inc.; "May Night" and "To the Dead Doughboys," from "The Lynching Bee," by William Ellery Leonard. New York: The Viking Press. Copyright, 1920, by B. W. Huebsch, Inc.

ARMISTICE DAY

INTRODUCTION

A young orderly burst into the Mars hospital ward and a tingling hush of premonition leaped from bed to bed down the long double row of wounded officers.

"The Colonel has received the following dispatch: 'At 11 A.M., to-day, firing will cease on all fronts. This is official!'"

Even after the door had slammed, the incredible hush continued. In common with all the dwellers on earth we were living through the most significant, the most poignant, the most stupendous moment of our lives.

Between these covers has been brought together the best poetry and prose which could be found, dealing with this day of exultant glory, its history, spirit and significance,—and with those allied subjects, the War and the victory which preceded the Armistice, the heroes who gave their all to win it, and the resultant peace with its cloud of attendant problems.

It is hoped that this volume may serve to clarify, emphasize and perpetuate that truer, larger spirit of the day which has been succinctly expressed in these two letters:

FROM EDWIN C. BROOME, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, PHILADELPHIA, TO HIS PRINCIPALS, OCT. 29, 1926.

As the years pass, our personal recollections of the war period,—of the sacrifices, of the enthusiasms, and of the ideals of those days,—inevitably become less vivid. It is of prime importance for the future peace of the world that the present generation shall be kept alive to the spirit which marked our participation in the World War and the hopes that burned so high on the day when the successful outcome of the struggle was assured. Annually, on November 11, the lesson of that day should be retaught in our schools.

I want to suggest that one of the most important pieces of constructive teaching which we should strive to accomplish in this connection is the reconciliation, in the minds of our pupils, of the ideals of patriotism and international good-will. Even young children can be brought to sense in simple form the conflict between competition on the one hand and coöperation on the other. These two opposite ideals of conduct should be presented not merely as symbolizing the age-old antithesis of selfishness and altruism. From the point of view of national welfare itself, it should be made clear that the united effort of the group works to the benefit of its individual members much more effectively than any competitive struggle.

TO THE AMERICAN LEGION, FROM ITS COMMANDER, 1921.

At 11 o'clock on the morning of November 11, 1918, an entire world, weary, worn and bent under the disaster of the World War, knelt in thanks to God. The guns ceased booming. A new note was in the air. A new hope was in every heart, a hope and a prayer that the fighting of nation against nation, of people against people, had ended for all time. We want to go back in spirit to that grand moment. We want to recall the purpose common to every one at that moment to do each his or her share to make impossible, ever again, such a disaster.

Armistice Day has not been officially designated as a national holiday. But in the following twenty-four States it is a legal holiday: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Hawaii.

In one other state an act of the legislature provides that the Governor shall issue annually a proclamation calling for the proper observance of Armistice Day. The American Legion is seeking the enactment of similar laws in the remaining States. The 60th Congress passed a resolution requiring the President to issue a proclamation calling upon officials to display the Flag on all government buildings on each Armistice Day, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the Day in schools, churches and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies expressive of their gratitude for peace and their desire for the continuance of friendly relations with all other peoples.

In our celebration of this great holiday let us keep faith with the living and with the dead by reconsecrating our lives to that brotherhood of mankind and to the coming of those United States of the World which alone can give man, "the fighting animal," an enduring peace.

R. H. S.

⁠September, 1927.

CONTENTS
		PAGE
Introduction		ix
I
PATRIOTISM
Patriotism	Lyman Abbott	3
America the Beautiful	Katharine Lee Bates	4
What Americans Believe In	Charles W. Eliot	6
The Trail	Percy MacKaye	7
Soldiers of Freedom	Woodrow Wilson	9
Relinquishing	Theda Kenyon	10
What Is Patriotism?	Agnes Repplier	11
To My Country	Marguerite Wilkinson	15
Self-Sacrifice	Woodrow Wilson	16
Stanzas on Freedom	James Russell Lowell	16
II
WAR
The President's War Message	Woodrow Wilson	21
Rheims Cathedral	Grace Hazard Conkling	25
Draw the Sword, O Republic	Edgar Lee Masters	26
From President Wilson's War Proclamation		28
Marching Song	Dana Burnet	31
America Goes in Singing	(From the Philadelphia Public Ledger)	33
I Have a Rendezvous with Death	Alan Seeger	36
The Man of the Marne	Bliss Carman	37
Letter by an American Officer	Anonymous	39
The Hero of Vimy	Brent Dow Allinson	40
The Look in Their Eyes	Robert Haven Schauffler	42
Comrades in a Common Cause	Bishop Brent	43
The Nightingales of Flanders	Grace Hazard Conkling	45
Paris Again	(From "Punch")	46
At Gallipoli	John Masefield	48
Captain Guynemer	Florence Earle Coates	50
From Letters and Diary	Alan Seeger	52
Five Souls	W. H. Ewer	56
April on the Battlefields	Lenora Speyer	57
Front Line	William Rose Benét	59
Eagle Youth	Karle Wilson Baker	61
Prayer in the Trenches	Brent Dow Allinson	62
De Profundis	Brent Dow Allinson	63
V. A. D.	(From "Punch")	64
Christmas 1917	Brent Dow Allinson	65
The Red Country	William Rose Benét	67
The White Comrade	Robert Haven Schauffler	70
III
THE ARMISTICE
Every One Sang	Siegfried Sassoon	77
The Signing of the Armistice	(From The Independent)	77
Armistice Day	Angelo Patri	80
Armistice Day, 1918-1928	Nancy Byrd Turner	82
The Armistice	(Full Text as Signed on November 11,1918)	83
Earth Song	David McKee Wright	94
The Day of Glory	Dorothy Canfield	96
Armistice Day, 1926	Lucia Trent	104
The Last Shot	(From The Independent)	105
Peace at Morning	Dana Burnet	110
Armistice Day	(From New York Herald Tribune)	126
How America Finished	Gregory Mason	128
The Great Armistice	Robert Haven Schauffler	145
"A Green Hill Far Away"	John Galsworthy	150
IV
SPIRIT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY
Suggested Address for Use by Legion Speaker on Armistice Day	The American Legion	159
A Non-Denominational Prayer for Armistice Day	Jewish Welfare Board	160
When Poppies Bloom Again	Henry Albert Phillips	161
Armistice Day	Mary Carolyn Davies	178
The War Thus Comes to an End	Woodrow Wilson	179
Armistice Day: Lest We Forget	Alma Lundman	184
Two Silences	Robert Haven Schauffler	186
Message of Marshal Ferdinand Foch to the American Legion, November 11, 1921		187
Lest We Forget	Curtis Wheeler	188
Marshal Foch's Armistice Day Message to America, 1926	Reported by Stephane Lauzanne	190
Saecla Ferarum	William Ellery Leonard	198
V
VICTORY
Victory Bells	Grace Howard Conkling	209
Psalm XLVI		210
Clean Hands	Austin Dobson	211
Brest Left Behind	John Chipman Farrar	212
Stacking the Needles	Theda Kenyon	215
America's Welcome Home	Henry Van Dyke	216
The Fruits of Victory	William Howard Taft	218
The New Victory	Margaret Widdemer	221
From a Song of Victory	Edwin Markham	223
VI
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND HIS BROTHERS
A Dead Warrior	Laurence Housman	229
Unknown	Bruce Barton	230
May Night	William Ellery Leonard	233
To the Dead Doughboys	William Ellery Leonard	234
Armistice	Charles Buxton Going	234
The Unknown	E. O. Laughlin	237
All This Is Ended	Rupert Brooke	238
Our Honored Dead	Henry Ward Beecher	239
The Unknown	Harry Kemp	240
The Land	Maxwell Struthers Burt	241
To the Canadian Mothers	Duncan Campbell Scott	242
The Unknown Soldier Honored by England	Sir Philip Gibbs	245
Soldier, Rest	Sir Walter Scott	259
The Fallen	Duncan Campbell Scott	260
The Old Soldier	Katherine Tynan	261
The Dead	Rupert Brooke	262
Flanders Poppies	Ian Colvin	262
In Flanders Fields	John McCrae	265
The Bivouac of the Dead	Theodore O'Hara	266
Aes Triplex	Robert Louis Stevenson	268
After Battle	Duncan Campbell Scott	270
The Young Dead	Maxwell Struthers Burt	270
Hymn for the Victorious Dead	Hermann Hagedorn	272
A Monument for the Soldiers	James Whitcomb Riley	273
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	275
For Thee They Died	John Drinkwater	275
Address of Major General Fox Conner		276
The Young Dead	Edith Wharton	278
The Unknown Soldier	Angelo Patri	279
Before Marching, and After	Thomas Hardy	281
VII
PEACE
Peace	George Washington	285
Peace	Rupert Brooke	285
I Would that Wars Would Cease	Alfred Tennyson	286
Peace	Woodrow Wilson	287
Peace at Too Great a Price	Woodrow Wilson	287
Love Honor Only Better Then Peace	Woodrow Wilson	288
The Spirit of America Is Peace	Woodrow Wilson	288
Activities in Peace	Woodrow Wilson	289
The Basis of Peace	Woodrow Wilson	289
Friendship Breeds Peace	Woodrow Wilson	290
Universal Peace Movement	Woodrow Wilson	290
"Fixed Desire of the Human Heart"	Woodrow Wilson	291
League of Nations	Nancy Byrd Turner	292
Vale—Atque Salve	M. A. De Wolfe Howe	293
The Known Soldier	M. A. De Wolfe Howe	294
Disarmament	John Greenleaf Whittier	295
To Peace	Katharine Lee Bates	296
Re-Armament	M. A. De Wolfe Howe	297
The Path to Peace	Sidney S. Robins	299
To Italy	Corinne Roosevelt Robinson	300
Prayer for the Spiritual Union of Mankind	Harry Emerson Fosdick	301
Peace	Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer	302
Aftermath	Siegfried Sassoon	304
The United States of Europe: An Interview with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler	Edward Marshall	306
To Peace, With Victory	Corinne Roosevelt Robinson	326
The Thousand Years of Peace	Alfred Tennyson	327
"When There Is Peace"	Austin Dobson	327
From Nocturne in a Library	Arthur Davison Ficke	328
Love, Give Me the Feel of To-morrow	Ralph Cheyney	330
Pacifists	M. A. De Wolfe Howe	331
These Ten Years Since We Went to War	(From The New York Evening Post)	332
Quotations for Peace Day	From the Scriptures	336
After	Florence Earle Coates	337
Sew the Flags Together	Vachel Lindsay	338
The Christ of the Andes	Edwin Markham	340
The Christ of the Andes	Anna P. Hannum	342
The Universal Peace	Alfred Tennyson	348
VIII
STORIES
The Call	O. W. Firkins	353
The Contract of Corporal Twing	Solon K. Stewart	364
The Image	Edward H. Sothern	392
IX
PLAYS AND A PAGEANTRY
The Unseen Host	Percival Wilde	407
They Just Won't Talk	Mary Katharine Reely	420
The Crowning of Peace	Nora Archibald Smith	434
X
PROGRAMS FOR ARMISTICE DAY
Program	Arranged by National Americanism Commission, American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana	447
Programs	Arranged by Someple and Others	448
Programs	Suggested by Mary E. Hazeltine, Library School of the University of Wisconsin	453
Program for the Celebration of Armistice Day	Suggested by The American Legion National Americanism Commission	455