Excerpt from Verse for Patriots: To Encourage Good Citizenship The flame of patriotism which swept our country at the outbreak of the War, welding together all the sec tions of our broad land and all our diversified peoples, is a forerunner of the international spirit of the future, the real brotherhood of man. We have, therefore, in cluded poems which have stirred the peoples of other lands, all of whom are now represented in our country. 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.