An American Creed

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An American Creed

EVERARD JACK APPLETON
By permission of Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, Publishers of 'With the Colors," by Everard Jack Appleton. Copyright, 1918.

STRAIGHT thinking, 
Straight talking, 
Straight doing, 
And a firm belief in the might of right.

Patience linked with patriotism, 
Justice added to kindliness, 
Uncompromising devotion to this Country, 
And active, not passive, Americanism.

To talk less, to mean more, 
To complain less, to accomplish more,
And to so live that every one of us is ready to look
Eternity in the face at any moment, and be unafraid! 

Title: An American Creed
Identifier: greatwar_Eaton041

Item sets: Great Poems of the World War

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