Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR REMEMBRANCE, by BASIL EBERS


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FOR REMEMBRANCE, by                    
First Line: What is it, o dear country of our pride
Last Line: But the fixed goal of our humanity.
Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day


WHAT is it, O dear Country of our pride,
We pledge anew that we will not forget?
To keep on Freedom's altar burning yet
The fires for which a myriad heroes died
Known and unknown, beyond the far sea's tide
That their great gift be no futility.

Faith with the Dead kept through our living faith;
In this alone the true remembrance lies,
The unfading garland for the sacrifice,
To prove their dream of Brotherhood no wraith,
No moment's hope -- its birth-pang one with death --
But the fixed goal of our humanity.





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