Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PATRIOTISM, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY


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First Line: He serves his country best
Last Line: There is no better way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan
Subject(s): Patriotism


He serves his country best
Who lives pure life and doeth righteous deed,
And walks straight paths however others stray,
And leaves his sons, as uttermost bequest,
A stainless record which all men may read;
This is the better way.

No drop but serves the slowly lifting tide;
No dew but has an errand to some flower;
No smallest star but sheds some helpful ray,
And man by man, each helping all the rest,
Make the firm bulwark of the country's power;
There is no better way.





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