Excerpt from Soldier Songs In every living soul There is the soldier breed, As noble as the goal That man doth ever lead. In every time and place Where Life and Freedom plead, Strong, straight as nature's laws They leap Unto the need. In this tremendous time 3 Of warring earth and skies, The passion taut and prime All beings energize. All round the rounded globe War's lightning message flies. The citizens disrobe, The soldier doth arise. Next to their living selves, To battle passion White, Is something of the rage That tyrants dared to smite; Some story of a stroke That soldiers feed delight; A glory that has broke From man for human right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.