MEN MAY COME AND MEN MAY GO. BUT
THE SONGS OF A NATION LIVE FOREVER
In no section of our country has the
gentle muse found readier response
than in dear old Georgia.
In presenting these fragments from the
Immortals our embarrassment lay
mostly in selection.
Many of these were written in those
dark and troublesome days that tried
men's souls, yet they carry a ring of
patriotism that may be helpful to the
youth of this generation.
As such they are presented with the
compliments of
THE GRAND COMMANDERY
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR gf GEORGIA
1916
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Most of these poems are under copyright and are printed here
by courtesy of the publishers. \i^e are under special obligations
to the firm of D. Appleton &' Company of New York
"Yet would I rather in the outward state
Of Song's immortal temple lay me down,
A beggar basking by that radiant gate,
Than bend beneath the haughtiest
empire's crown."
So wrote Paul U. Haifiie. of AuijuKta,
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