This page has been validated.
224
PATRIOTIC PIECES
And the blood-red tide of the kaiser's pride
They battled by day and night.
Each bullet its billet has got, they say,
And always will find some mark.
And Pat and Jack in a trench mud black
Lay side by side in the dark.
Their life's blood ebbed with a failing tide
As they came toward the Great Unknown;
But hand in hand from that far-off land
They knew they were not alone.
So "over the top" to the Glory Side,
Where never is war nor tears;
Where the true and tried in God's love abide
With nothing of doubts nor fears.
And the God they met as they entered in
Where the souls of all men are free,
Was the God of Jack's Y. M. C. A.
And the God of Pat's K. of C.
