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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Knowledge</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I have lived softly, trodden pleasant ways,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Sounded no depths of life, looked on the mere</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Shell of the world, with lazy critic gaze,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Heard its great voice with inattentive ear;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>War snatched me from the cloying atmosphere</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Of clubs and foyers to adventure high,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Taught me to feel, hate, love, endure and fear,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I have lived and fought with men and saw them die!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>What spaces I have spanned in these great days!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>How far am I from that glib, insincere</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Cynic who summed existence ina phrase</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And looked on all things human with a sneer!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>One lealrns the verities when over here,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Where red war flames along the arching sky,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And in a life that strips souls stark and sheer,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I lived and fought with men and saw them die!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Comrades I have found where cannon blaze,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Loyalty to the end, abiding cheer</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In “hell's despite;” courage beyond all praise,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And life held cheap because a faith is dear;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Of old I saw the world an ugly smear,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Not knowing that my sight was all awry</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But war's rough hand swept my dull vision clear,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I have lived and fought with men and saw them die.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Envoy</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Thank God the wrath of war will disappear,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Yet this is brought me, which I could not buy,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The memory that through one flaming year</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I lived and fought with men and saw them die!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="woman_s_world.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womans World"><U><I>Woman's World magazine</I></U></A><I> - September 1919</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>