House of falling leaves with other poems / William Braithwaite [electronic text]

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Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

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Boston: John W. Luce and Company

1908

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MY THOUGHTS GO MARCHING
LIKE AN ARMÈD HOST   MY thoughts go marching like an armèd host Out of the city of silence, guns and cars; Troop after troop across my dreams they post To the invasion of the winds and stars. O brave array of youth's untamed desire! With thy bold, dauntless captain Hope to lead His raw recruits to Fate's opposing fire, And up the walls of Circumstance to bleed. How fares the expedition in the end? When this, my heart, shall have old age for king And to the wars no further troop can send, What final message will the arm'stice bring? The host gone forth in youth the world to meet, In age returns —in victory or defeat?   

House of falling leaves with other poems / William Braithwaite [electronic text]

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MY THOUGHTS GO MARCHINGLIKE AN ARMÈD HOST

MY THOUGHTS GO MARCHING
LIKE AN ARMÈD HOST