<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Victory!</h1><p class="byline"> S. J. DUNCAN-CLARK <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN The Chicago Evening Post, November</span> 11, 1918<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>Permission to reproduce in this book</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">OUT of the night it leaped the seas--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">The four long years of night!</p><p class="line">"The foe is beaten to his knees,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">And triumph crowns the fight!"</p><p class="line">It sweeps the world from shore to shore,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">By wave and wind 'tis flung,</p><p class="line">It grows into a mighty roar</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Of siren, bell and tongue.</p><p class="line">Where little peoples knelt in fear,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">They stand in joy today;</p><p class="line">The hour of their redemption here,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Their feet on Freedom's way.</p><p class="line">The kings and kaisers flee their doom,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Fall bloody crown and throne!</p><p class="line">Room for the people! Room! Make room!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">They march to claim their own!</p><p class="line">Now God be praised we lived to see</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">His Sun of Justice rise,</p><p class="line">His Sun of Righteous Liberty,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">To gladden all our skies!</p><p class="line">And God be praised for those who died,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Whate'er their clime or breed,</p><p class="line">Who, fighting bravely side by side,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">A world from thraldom freed!</p><p class="line">And God be praised for those who, spite</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">Of woundings sore and deep,</p><p class="line">Survive to see the Cause of Right</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">O'er all its barriers sweep!</p><p class="line">God and the people--This our cry!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">O, God, thy peace we sing!</p><p class="line">The peace that comes through victory,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:3%">And dwells where Thou art King. </p></div></body></html> · Great War