The Silk-Hat Soldier, and Other Poems in War Time
The Silk-Hat Soldier, and Other Poems in War Time
By Richard Le Gallienne
28 Sep, 2020
The Cry of the Little Peoples went up to God in vain;
The Czech and the Pole, and the Finn, and the Schleswig Dane:
We ask but a little portion of the green, ambitious earth;
Only to sow and sing and reap in the land of our birth.
We ask not
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The Cry of the Little Peoples went up to God in vain;
The Czech and the Pole, and the Finn, and the Schleswig Dane:
We ask but a little portion of the green, ambitious earth;
Only to sow and sing and reap in the land of our birth.
We ask not coaling stations, nor ports in the China seas,
We leave to the big child-nations such rivalries as these.
We have learned the lesson of Time, and we know three things of worth;
Only to sow and sing and reap in the land of our birth.
O leave us little margins, waste ends of land and sea, Less