• Author: Unknown
• Editor:
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume V
• Page Number:
• Date: 6 5 1918
• Tags:
• poetry
• patriotism

AMERICANS ALL!

We may not stand in the battle-line, That holds Picardy’s plain; We may not man the grim, grey ships, That guard the long sea lane: But we are doing that we can, To make the Hun threat vain.

We may not take their vacant place, Who fight against the Hun: Take up in mill, and farm, and mine, The task they leave undone; But we have given that we could: Our dollars hardly won.

We may not give the gift supreme, That others give to-day; And know that by our heart’s-blood shed, We’ve washed all stain away: By meager wage of scant toil given, Our little part we play.

We may not do the thing we would: Fight in the battle van; Or train the guns that ‘‘Over There," Guard yet our own Home-land. We may not do the thing we would, So do we what we can.