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Show The Red Cross Answers By THEODOSIA GARRISON Of the Vigilantes. Dear God, to lenve this sheltered place wbcrcfrnm I mny not go To give my service to a wprld torn through with war nml woe, To heal the wounds of broken men, to mend the shattered mind, To lend my hands unto the maimed, my eyes unto (he hllud; To give a woman bark her nnm from out the ery dead "But I will do this for you," sulci the great Cross ot Ited. Nay, but there ore little towns that once were while and fair Now burned and blenk and desolate 'mid blackened fields and baro; If 1 might bring Its people hack to tlnd there ns beforo Tho staunch roof, tlio decent hearth, the vines about the door; If I might lift a frightened child and leave It comforted "But 1 will do this for you," said the great Cross of lied. "You may heal tho wounded and you may guide the blind, ' You may bring new comfort and Joy to humankind, 1 If so within your sheltered place you give me for your part The strength within your two hands, the pity at your heart; Through you, from you, of you 1 am, by your own heart-strings led, I fall bat If you fall me" sold the great Cross of Bed. i - |