Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — THE SCARLET CROSS [ARTICLE]

THE SCARLET CROSS

By Margaret Widdemer

Of the Vloilantea. What is it that you do today, who lift the Scarlet Croesi For all the withered world is down to ruin add to loss, Aad aU the world hears dashing sword, and hSars no sound less plain— What >en you do who lift the Cross, but heal to tight again! Wo gnard the women loft alone, heartbroken for their dead, We nave the children wandering where all save Fear has fled, Wo raise again the broken towns swept down by shot and shell, We heal again the broken souls hopeless from learning HollOh, they who raw but Grief and Hate oee now our red sign Plato— We mvo the ghd world’s soul alive that War had nearly slain I