America's Welcome Home
By Henry Van Dyke (1852�1933) |
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Oh, gallantly they
fared forth in khaki and in blue,
America's crusading
host of warriors bold and true;
They battled for the
rights of man beside our brave Allies,
And now they're
coming home to us with glory in their eyes.
"Oh, it's
home again, and home again, America for me!
Our hearts
are turning home again and there we long to be,
In our
beautiful big country beyond the ocean bars,
Where the
air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
Our boys have seen the Old World as none have seen
before.
They know the grisly horror of the German gods of
war:
The noble faith of Britain and the hero-heart of
France,
The soul of Belgium's fortitude and Italy's
romance.
They bore our country's great word across
the rolling sea,
"America swears brotherhood with all the
just and free."
They wrote that word victorious on fields
of mortal strife,
And many a valiant lad was proud to
seal it with his life.
Oh, welcome home in Heaven's
peace, dear spirits of the dead!
And welcome home ye
living sons America hath bred!
The lords of war are
beaten down, your glorious task is done;
You fought to
make the whole world free, and the victory is won.
_Now it's home again, and home again, our hearts are turning
west,
Of all the lands beneath the sun America is best.
We're going home to our own folks, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of
stars. |
By
Henry Van Dyke (1852�1933)
Listed October 25, 2012
Note: The poem is in tribute to the two million American
troops returning
from
France at the end of World War I.
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