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Página 27 - That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved; and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Página 27 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Página 27 - Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed suddenly, The vision came and went, The light shone and was spent. On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A Lady with...
Página 21 - Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away!
Página 24 - Nations have their childhood and their days of hard lessons just as children do. One hundred* and forty years ago when the first American army marched to battle, our nation was younger among nations than you are among your fathers, your mothers and their friends. Our army had drummer boys in those days, real boys of 10 and 12, who marched as bravely and as proudly into cannon fire as their great chief, General Washington, himself. Our nation had little girls who laughed and cheered and loaded muskets...
Página 24 - Where many school houses stand today American boys and girls may have helped to fight and to defeat the enemy, when our Nation, too, was young. We are in the greatest war of the world's history, and we must win this war. We can and we shall win, if the boys and girls of America say so, and mean it, and feel it, and live it, as the boys and girls of '76 lived and felt and helped.
Página 24 - I will save every penny and loan it to my Government to help save the lives of the big brothers of America," "I will try to teach every American I see to do the same" — then twenty million homes, the homes of all America, will be filled with the spirit of 76, the spirit of the drummer boys, of the brave girls of those days. America will win again, as it has always won, through the splendid strength, courage, and sacrifice in the hearts of youth, that to-day...
Página 16 - ... which wounded soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you through the Red Cross Bulletins the thrilling stories of relief and rescue. And, best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing those kind things under your teacher's direction to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all love.
Página 7 - ... money value of things. We have seen Congress appropriate for expenditure this fiscal year nineteen billion dollars. Do you know what a billion dollars is? I don't. I have been used to handling million dollar units a good deal. We know what a million dollars is pretty well. We can picture what sort of a building, how much of a shop, what kind of a store a million dollars represents. But we cannot as yet adequately measure a billion dollars.
Página 24 - Nation the lesson of saving and serving which it must and will learn, through the message which its school children will carry home. Through saving your pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and buying thrift stamps and then war-savings certificates, you will help your country and its gallant armies to win the war. I know you will help.

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