THE CHILDREN OF FRANCE MARSHAL JOFFRE Among all the innumerable expressions of sympathy, all the kindnesses showered by you on France, none touches us so deeply as what you are doing for the orphans of our heroic dead. Our children are our most precious possession, our joy and our hope, and there is no surer way to our hearts than to help these little ones, the most pitiful victims of this war for the liberation of the world. In their name, in the name of our soldiers of France, I thank you, I thank the children of America whose hearts have gone out to their stricken little French brothers and sisters. The memory of what you have done, of what you are doing, will never fade. You have sown the seeds of love and friendship between our two countries. They will flower when they are men and women. Between America and France there is now a tender bond of human kindness and affection that nothing can break. THE VICTOR OF THE MARNE ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON And children march with eager feet That Memory to their latest heirs his glorious CHILDREN OF FRANCE GERTRUDE ROBINSON Dear little sad-eyed children of France, danced and sang, In the streets of Paris you Sad little children of France. Wan little weary-eyed children of France, We are thinking today of the long ago, Fatherless children of France. Fair by the side of the Red, White and Blue In the name of that help of the long ago, You knelt in your streets as our flag went by – The stars of heaven gleamed in its folds, |