The Red Flower - Poems Written in War Time

Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933

English

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THE RED FLOWER

POEMS WRITTEN IN WAR TIME

BY
HENRY VAN DYKE
D.O.L. (OXON.)


1919



PREFACE


These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares
and labors of a heavy task.

Two of the poems, "A Scrap of Paper" and "Stand Fast," were written in
1914 and bore the signature _Civis Americanus_--the use of my own
name at the time being impossible. Two others, "Lights Out" and "Remarks
about Kings," were read for me by Robert Underwood Johnson at the meeting
of the American Academy in Boston, November, 1915, at which I was unable
to be present.

The rest of the verses were printed after I had resigned my diplomatic post
and was free to say what I thought and felt, without reserve.

The "Interludes in Holland" are thoughts of the peaceful things that will
abide for all the world after we have won this war against war.

SYLVANORA, October 1, 1917.




CONTENTS


PREMONITION
THE RED FLOWER (JUNE, 1914)

THE TRIAL AS BY FIRE
A SCRAP OF PAPER
STAND FAST
LIGHTS OUT (1915)
REMARKS ABOUT KINGS
WAR-MUSIC
MIGHT AND RIGHT
THE PRICE OF PEACE
STORM-MUSIC

FRANCE AND BELGIUM
THE BELLS OP MALINES (AUGUST 17, 1914)
THE NAME OF FRANCE
JEANNE D'ARC RETURNS (1914-1916)

INTERLUDES IN HOLLAND
THE HEAVENLY HILLS OF HOLLAND
THE PROUD LADY
FLOOD-TIDE OF FLOWERS (IN HOLLAND)

ENTER AMERICA
AMERICAN'S PROSPERITY
THE GLORY OF SHIPS
MARE LIBERUM
"LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD"
THE OXFORD THRUSHES (FEBRUARY, 1917)
HOMEWARD BOUND




PREMONITION




THE RED FLOWER

June 1914


In the pleasant time of Pentecost,
By the little river Kyll,
I followed the angler's winding path
Or waded the stream at will.
And the friendly fertile German land
Lay round me green and still.

But all day long on the eastern bank
Of the river cool and clear,
Where the curving track of the double rails
Was hardly seen though near,