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    With the Colors Songs of the American Service
    With the Colors Songs of the American Service
    With the Colors Songs of the American Service
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    With the Colors Songs of the American Service

    By Everard Jack Appleton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      With the Colors Songs of the American Service - Everard Jack Appleton

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, With the Colors, by Everard Jack Appleton

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      Title: With the Colors

      Songs of the American Service

      Author: Everard Jack Appleton

      Release Date: December 9, 2006 [eBook #20072]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITH THE COLORS***

      E-text prepared by Rick Niles, Rudy Ketterer,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      With the Colors

      SONGS OF THE

      AMERICAN SERVICE

      BY

      EVERARD JACK APPLETON

      Author of The Quiet Courage

      CINCINNATI

      STEWART & KIDD COMPANY 1917

      Copyright, 1917, by

      STEWART & KIDD COMPANY

      All Rights Reserved

      Copyright in England

      TO THE

      BEST FLAG OF ALL:

      The Stars and Stripes.

      WITH THE COLORS

      THE COLORS

      It isn't just colors and bunting—

      The red and the blue and the white.

      It's something heaps better and finer,—

      It's the soul of my country in sight!

      There's a lot of ceremony 'bout the Flag,

      Though many half-baked patriots believe

      Salutin' it and hangin' it correct

      Is only loyalty upon the sleeve.

      But we who work beneath the Flag to-day,

      Who'll honor it—and die for it, perhaps—

      Get a slightly different view of the old red, white and blue

      Than is visioned by th' criticisin' chaps.

      It isn't just for decoratin' things,

      It isn't just an emblem, clean and bright,

      No matter what its hoist or what its fly,

      To us it means our country—wrong or right!

      The sobby stuff that some good people spout

      Won't help a man to understand this view,

      But: Wherever that Flag goes, the man who follows, knows

      That a better, cleaner citizen goes too!

      It's not just a banner to look at,—

      For which we're expected to fight;

      It's something that represents freedom;

      It's the soul of my country—in sight!

      LOYALTY

      This is no time to quibble or to fool;

      To argue over who was wrong, who right;

      To measure fealty with a worn foot-rule;

      To ask: Shall we keep still or shall we fight?

      The Clock of Fate has struck; the hour is here;

      War is upon us now—not far away;

      One question only rises, clarion clear:

      How may I serve my country, day by day?

      Not all of us may join the khakied throng

      Of those who answer and go forth to stem

      The tide of war. But we can all be strong

      And steady in our loyalty to them!

      Not with unfettered thought, or tongue let loose

      In bitterness and hate—a childish game!

      But with a faith, untroubled by abuse,

      That honors those who put the rest to shame!

      There is no middle ground on which to stand;

      We've done with useless pro-and-con debates;

      The one-time friend, so welcome in this land,

      Has turned upon us at our very gates.

      There is no way, with honor, to stand back—

      Real patriotism isn't cool—then hot;

      You cannot trim the flag to fit your lack;

      You are American—or else you're not!

      THE OLD NATIONAL GUARD

      You pull a lot of funny stuff about us, when there's peace,

      The jokes you spring are sometimes rough, and make a guy see red;

      But when there's trouble in the air you vaudevillians cease,

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