Excerpt from Wings, and Other War Rhymes Then Give Us Wings If wings will help our men to see Some Boche's belching battery, Releasing from a screen of trees Its screeching death upon the breeze - Or help our giant guns to search With truer aim each hidden perch Of Teuton guns, and make them meek Ere they again may chance to speak - If wings, O God, will do these things, Then give us wings. If great destroying wings might stay Munitions on their hurried way, Or hold a reinforcement back By dropping ruin on its track, Or yet set free the pent-up hell Of depots filled with shot and shell, Or swiftly give eternal sleep To ships that prowl the nether deep - If wings, O God, will do these things, Then give us wings and still more wings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."

A study of American poetry and the political culture of World War I.