Chapter D: Appleton and Company

NEW YORK LONDON

1920

Copyright 1919 by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO GENERAL LEONARD WOOD

By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Your vision keen, unerring when the blind,
Who could not see, turned, groping, from the light.
Your sentient knowledge of the wise and right
Have won to-day the freedom of mankind.

Honor to whom the honor be assigned!
Mightier in exile than the men whose might
Is of the sword alone, and not of sight.
You march beside the victor host aligned.

Had not your spirit soared, our ardent youth
Had faltered leaderless; their eager feet
Attuned to effort for the valiant truth
Through your command rushed swiftly to compete
To hold on high the torch of Liberty--
Great-visioned Soul, yours is the victory!

November 11, 1918

_From "Service and Sacrifice: Poems"_

Copyright. 1915. 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919. by
Charles Scribner's Sons.
By permission of the publishers.

CONTENTS

I. The Subject 11

II. The Indian Fighter 25

III. The Official 51

IV. The Soldier 77

V. The Organizer 101

VI. The Administrator 129

VII. The Statesman 159

VIII. The Patriot 201

IX. The Great War 225

X. The Result 257

THE SUBJECT

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