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The Bravest Battles

  • Author: Clark, Adelbert
  • Editor: B-7413
  • Newspaper: The Umpire volume 5
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  • Date: 5 24 1916
  • Tags:
  • poetry

THE BRAVEST BATTLES Adelbert Clark We fight the bravest battles where No smoke from cannons roll; We lift the brightest standards when We drive fear from the soul. These silent battles of our lives Are waged twixt right and wrong, And he who heeds, the warning cry Is marshalled on by song. And though the scars are furrowed That hint of other days, The singing of the soul shall be Of everlasting praise ‘T will count for naught the long, hard— The suff'ring and the pain, The grim scarred battle-flag of days That bore the crimson stain. We fight the bravest battles where No musketry is heard, Nor battlefield or winding ways With battlefield or winding ways With blinding smoke is blurred; But where the heart is in the lead To conquer all that's wrong, And kindly deeds move every soul to light the weak with song.