For our Men by Edwina Stanton Babcock — Read

Let us keep home safe for them -- / Fires, laughter and song, / The curtains close, the beds all smooth and white, / The leisure long.

Let us make good things for them -- / Sweet meats and bright conserves, / Nourishing breads and all the dear delights / Hunger deserves.

Let us lift high God for them, / And like tall candles hold / The straight white lights that in the trench they knew -- / Were more than gold.

Let us grow up for them, / And hold us to impassioned lofty thought -- / So they shall never come to be ashamed / Of that for which they fought.

Let us all work hard for them -- / For such as live and come to us once more; / To those that do not come. Ah! for those men -- / Passionate love and honor, evermore!