<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">To Serve is to Gain</h1><p class="byline"> CHARLES H. MACKINTOSH <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN Logging, Duluth</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"HE profits most who serves us best!"</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Let each who labors, lives and dies </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Beneath these star-bespangled skies</p><p class="line">Go write that motto on his breast!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"He profits most"--Here is no call </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To selfish ease or sordid gain; </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who serves himself will serve in vain;</p><p class="line">Who profits most must serve us all.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And he has most who gives the most,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Since what is kept can but decay </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">--And Death still treads his sleepless way</p><p class="line">Among our myriad human host. </p></div></body></html> · Great War