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Sunday, December 30, 1917

"When interested folks

Wax eloquent

In their praises

Of your patriotism,

And nobility,

And self sacrifice,

And other virtues,

Carefully count

The contents

Of your pay envelope."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from 'The Sayings of Patsy' by Bernice Evans, in the New York Call, a Socialist Party newspaper, December 30, 1917. Evans wrote thirteen poems of that name.

Source

World War I and America by A. Scott Berg, page 446, copyright © 2017 by Literary Classics of the United States, publisher: The Library of America, publication date: 2017

Tags

1917-12-30, 1917, December, New York Call, Sayings of Patsy, Bernice Evans, Evans, Patsy, United States currency card