We missed their laughter and their cheer; it seems but yesterday
    We had them here to walk with us, and now they’ve marched away. 
    And here where once their smiles were seen we keep a printed scroll;
    The absent boy we long to see is on the honor roll.

    So quickly did the summons come we scarcely marked the change,
    One day life marched its normal pace, the next all things seemed strange,
    And when we questioned where they were, the sturdiest of us all,
    We saw the silent honor roll on each familiar wall.

The laughter that we knew has gone; the merry voice of youth
No longer rings where graybeards sit, discussing sombre truth. 
No longer jests are flung about to rouse our weary souls,
For they who meant so much to us are on our honor rolls.

         The Princess Pats

A touch of the plain and the prairie,
A bit of the Motherland, too;
A strain of the fur-trapper wary,
A blend of the old and the new;
A bit of the pioneer splendor
That opened the wilderness’ flats,
A touch of the home-lover, tender,
You’ll find in the boys they call Pats.

    The glory and grace of the maple,
      The strength that is born of the wheat,
    The pride of a stock that is staple,
      The bronze of a midsummer heat;
    A blending of wisdom and daring,
      The best of a new land, and that’s
    The regiment gallantly bearing
      The neat little title of Pats.

    A bit of the man who has neighbored
      With mountains and forests and streams,
    A touch of the man who has labored
      To model and fashion his dreams;
    The strength of an age of clean living,
      Of right-minded fatherly chats,
    The best that a land could be giving
      Is there in the breasts of the Pats.

         July the Fourth, 1917

Time was the cry went round the world: 
America for freedom speaks,
A new flag is to-day unfurled,
An eagle on the mountain shrieks,
A king is failing on his throne,
A race of men defies his power! 
And no one could have guessed or known
The burden of that splendid hour.

    A bell rang out that summer day
      And men and women stood and heard;
    That tongue of brass had more to say
      Than could be spoken by a word. 
    It spoke the thoughts of honest men,
      It whispered Destiny’s intents
    And rang a warning loudly then
      To Kings of all the continents.

    The old bell in its holy loft
      Where pigeons nest, has ceased to swing
    And yet through many a day and oft
      A weary people hear it sing. 
    That hour long years ago, when first
      America for freedom fought,
    The bonds of slavery were burst: 
      That hour began the reign of thought.