<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">They Also Serve</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Beyond the soaring thrill that lifts the heart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To martial music and to marching feet,</p><p class="line">Beyond the thin call of the fife -- apart</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">From brave emotion, and the sudden heat</p><p class="line">Of young enthusiasm, and the cheers</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of crowds which weep and rally at a word --</p><p class="line">Beyond the Fire and the Wind and Tears</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The still small voice of Sacrifice is heard!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The cripple in his chair who does his bit --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The bent old woman in her garden-plot --</p><p class="line">By such small flames the holy Lamp is lit --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And who can say the Country needs them not?</p><p class="line">Not for us all the right to rise and go</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To unknown Terror over haunted seas --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Yet all shall reap as We-At-Home shall sow --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">And thus we serve -- unto the least of these!</p></div><p class="byline">-- Faith Baldwin.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> Fifes and Drums.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (George H. Doran Co.) </p></body></html> · Great War