The VIGILANTES Books
FIFES AND DRUMS
A COLLECTION OF POEMS
OF AMERICA AT WAR
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOREWORD
These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by those who have banded themselves together under the name of The Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war. They are presented to the public in the belief that men and women in every corner of the Union will find reflected in them some of the love and aspiration they themselves are experiencing for their re-discovered country.
CONTENTS
Surely the time for making songs has come
Now that the Spring is in the air again.
Trees blossom though men bleed; and after rain
The robins hop; and soon the bees will hum.
Long was the winter, long our lips were dumb.
Long under snow our loyal dreams have lain.
Surely the time for making songs has come
Now that the Spring is in the air again.
The Spring!—with bugles and a rumbling drum!
Oh, builders of high music out of pain,
Now is the hour with singing to make vain
The boast of kings in Pandemonium!
Surely the time for making songs has come!
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