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You have the grit and the guts I know	A
You are ready to answer blow for blow	A
You are virile combative stubborn hard	B
But your honor ends with your own back yard	B
Each man intent on his private goal	C
You have no feeling for the whole	C
What singly none would tolerate	D
You let unpunished hit the state	D
Unmindful that each man must share	E
The stain he lets his country wear	E
And what no traveller ignores	F
That her good name is often yours	G
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You are proud in the pride that feels its might	H
From your imaginary height	H
Men of another race or hue	I
Are men of a lesser breed to you	I
The neighbor at your southern gate	D
You treat with the scorn that has bred his hate	D
To lend a spice to your disrespect	J
You call him the greaser But reflect	J
The greaser has spat on you more than once	K
He has handed you multiple affronts	L
He has robbed you banished you burned and killed	M
He has gone untrounced for the blood he spilled	M
He has jeering used for his bootblack's rag	N
The stars and stripes of the gringo's flag	N
And you in the depths of your easy chair	E
What did you do what did you care	E
Did you find the season too cold and damp	O
To change the counter for the camp	O
Were you frightened by fevers in Mexico	A
I can't imagine but this I know	A
You are impassioned vastly more	P
By the news of the daily baseball score	P
Than to hear that a dozen countrymen	Q
Have perished somewhere in Darien	R
That greasers have taken their innocent lives	S
And robbed their holdings and raped their wives	T
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Not by rough tongues and ready fists	U
Can you hope to jilt in the modern lists	U
The armies of a littler folk	V
Shall pass you under the victor's yoke	V
Sobeit a nation that trains her sons	W
To ride their horses and point their guns	W
Sobeit a people that comprehends	X
The limit where private pleasure ends	X
And where their public dues begin	Q
A people made strong by discipline	R
Who are willing to give what you've no mind to	I
And understand what you are blind to	I
The things that the individual	Y
Must sacrifice for the good of all	Z
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You have a leader who knows the man	A2
Most fit to be called American	R
A prophet that once in generations	W
Is given to point to erring nations	W
Brighter ideals toward which to press	B2
And lead them out of the wilderness	C2
Will you turn your back on him once again	D2
Will you give the tiller once more to men	D2
Who have made your country the laughing stock	E2
For the older peoples to scorn and mock	E2
Who would make you servile despised and weak	F2
A country that turns the other cheek	F2
Who care not how bravely your flag may float	G2
Who answer an insult with a note	G2
Whose way is the easy way in all	Z
And seeing that polished arms appal	Z
Their marrow of milk fed pacifist	H2
Would tell you menace does not exist	H2
Are these in the world's great parliament	I2
The men you would choose to represent	J2
Your honor your manhood and your pride	K2
And the virtues your fathers dignified	K2
Oh bury them deeper than the sea	L2
In universal obloquy	F2
Forget the ground where they lie or write	H
For epitaph Too proud to fight	H
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I have been too long from my country's shores	F
To reckon what state of mind is yours	G
But as for myself I know right well	Z
I would go through fire and shot and shell	Z
And face new perils and make my bed	M2
In new privations if ROOSEVELT led	M2
But I have given my heart and hand	N2
To serve in serving another land	N2
Ideals kept bright that with you are dim	O2
Here men can thrill to their country's hymn	O2
For the passion that wells in the Marseillaise	G
Is the same that fires the French these days	G
And when the flag that they love goes by	P2
With swelling bosom and moistened eye	P2
They can look for they know that it floats there still	Z
By the might of their hands and the strength of their will	Z
And through perils countless and trials unknown	Q2
Its honor each man has made his own	Q2
They wanted the war no more than you	I
But they saw how the certain menace grew	I
And they gave two years of their youth or three	L2
The more to insure their liberty	L2
When the wrath of rifles and pennoned spears	G
Should roll like a flood on their wrecked frontiers	G
They wanted the war no more than you	I
But when the dreadful summons blew	I
And the time to settle the quarrel came	R2
They sprang to their guns each man was game	R2
And mark if they fight not to the last	S2
For their hearths their altars and their past	S2
Yea fight till their veins have been bled dry	P2
For love of the country that WILL not die	P2
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O friends in your fortunate present ease	G
Yet faced by the self same facts as these	G
If you would see how a race can soar	P
That has no love but no fear of war	P
How each can turn from his private role	Z
That all may act as a perfect whole	Z
How men can live up to the place they claim	R2
And a nation jealous of its good name	R2
Be true to its proud inheritance	G
Oh look over here and learn from FRANCE	G

Alan Seeger

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