Show s tBT JI Song Tar or lj ro i T TS S By Edwin tl Markham MarkhamS S S S Reprinted by courtesy of the K Church New Messenger S S 1 I IA A song for the heroes who saw the sign And took their place in the battle line They were walls of granite and gates of brass bross And they cried out to God They shall shaU not pass poss And the they hurled them back in a storm of f cheers And the sound will echo on over oyer the years And a song sonS for the end for the glorious end And the tho soldiers marching up over the bend Of the thc broken roads in gallant France The fhe homin homing heroes who took the chance Who Vho looked on life and with oven o breath Faced Paced the tho winds from the gulfs of death I Their hearts are arc running on over oer the graves graves- Over the thc wrecks battle wrecks over over vcr the waves waves- Over the scarred fields over fields over the tho foam foam foam- On to l America on 2 erica on n to home I III S II U And a n. song for tho others tho time heroes slain In Li Argonne Forest Forest in in St. St In the thc flower flowery meadows of In Belgium Belgium in in Italy S From brave bra Montello to the se sea SeL t A song for the tho heroes gone on ahead To join the hosts of tile the marching dead deadA dead dead- A song for the souls that could lightly fling Sweet life away as a a. little thing For th tb tho sake of th the tho mighty need of earth S The need of tho the ages comin coming t to birth All praise for the daring God who gave i S Heroic souls that could dare the grave I t Praise for tho tile power He laid on youth J To challenge disaster and die for truth What greater enter gift can the High God give gi I Than the power to die that the truth may live livel 1 r Glory to the tho Lord the Hero of He Heaven l' l He whose wounds in His side are aro seven seven seven- Glory that lie He gathers gather the heroes home Out Ont of the red fields out ont of the foam foam foam- Gathers them out of the Everywhere E I Into the Camp that is There Over 1 |