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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.
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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.
THE WINDS OF WAR-NEWS
The winds of war-news change and veer?Now westerly and full of cheer,?Now easterly, depressing, sour?With tidings of the Teutons' power.
But thou, America, whose heart?With brave Allies has taken part,?Be not a weathercock to change?With these wild winds that shift and range.
Be thou a compass ever true,?Through sullen clouds or skies of blue,?To that great star which rules the night,--?The star of Liberty and Right.
Lover of peace, oh set thy soul,?Thy strength, thy wealth, thy conscience whole,?To win the peace