Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1917 — EPIGRHYMES: [ARTICLE]

EPIGRHYMES:

I don’t pretend to be the sort of hero that he was, for Nathan Hale thought ONLY of his flag: I’m glad because there’s deep within my heart a shame-faced feeling of REGRET THAT I am not quite man enough to die like that —not yet. We HAVE BUT ONE LIFE, rich or poor; myself, I have one prayer—that when I come TO LOSE it, they , will say, “That man was There!” And so I’ll give my services, FOR, ’neath his flag and mine, MY love of COUNTRY ought to grow like his —almost Divine. Robert Russell. "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

(Copyright, 1917, by Int’l press Bureau.)