This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that “war is hell”:
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country’s life.
April, 1904.
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The Statue of Sherman by <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">St.</abbr> Gaudens
by Henry van Dyke Jr.
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