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Title: Golden Stars
And Other Verses Following "The Red Flower"
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Release Date: December 16, 2006 [eBook #20123]
Language: English
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GOLDEN STARS
by
HENRY VAN DYKE

The Valley of Vision
Fighting for Peace
The Unknown Quantity

The Ruling Passion
The Blue Flower

Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land
Days Off
Little Rivers

Fisherman's Luck
Poems, Collection in one volume
Golden Stars
The Red Flower
The Grand Canyon, and Other Poems

The White Bees, and Other Poems
The Builders, and Other Poems

Music, and Other Poems
The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems

The House of Rimmon
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

GOLDEN STARS
And Other Verses Following "The Red Flower"
by
HENRY VAN DYKE
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1919
Copyright, 1918, 1919,
by Charles Scribner's Sons
Published February, 1919
Copyright,
1918, By the Outlook Company
Copyright, 1918, By the New York
Herald Co.
Copyright, 1917, By New York Times Co.
Copyright,
1918, By New York Tribune, Inc.
Copyright, 1917, By Land &
Water Pub. Co.
Copyright, 1918, By the Public Ledger
Copyright,
1918, By the Press Publishing Co.
[Illustration]
NOTE
The only reason for printing this little book is that many people have
expressed a desire to have the memorial poem, "Golden Stars," in a
permanent form.

The other verses are included simply because they are a wayside record
of some of the varied feelings of an old lover of peace who was willing
to fight for it,--feelings which may find a response in other American
hearts.
Henry van Dyke.
Avalon, January 6, 1919.
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Peaceful Warrior 3
The Winds of War-News 4
Righteous Wrath 5
Facta non Verba 6
From Glory unto Glory 7
Signs of the Zodiac 10
Britain, France, America 13
The Red Cross 14
Easter Road, 1918 15
America's Welcome Home 17
The Surrender of the German Fleet 19
Golden Stars 21
THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR
I have no joy in strife,
Peace is my great desire;
Yet God forbid I
lose my life
Through fear to face the fire.
A peaceful man must fight
For that which peace demands,--

Freedom and faith, honor and right,
Defend with heart and hands.
Farewell, my friendly books;
Farewell, ye woods and streams;
The
fate that calls me forward looks
To a duty beyond dreams.
Oh, better to be dead
With a face turned to the sky,
Than live
beneath a slavish dread
And serve a giant lie.
Stand up, my heart, and strive
For the things most dear to thee!

Why should we care to be alive
Unless the world is free?

May, 1918.
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