Poem by Henry Van Dyke

The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens

This is the soldier brave enough to tell 
The glory-dazzled world that `war is hell’: 
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife, 
And rides through hell to save his country’s life.

1. The Gentle Traveller
2. Hesper
3. Flood-Tide of Flowers
4. Patria
5. Sicily, December 1908

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