Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
/Overview
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (AKA Susan Coolidge) born Cleveland, OH January 29, 1835 (d. 1905). Civil War nurse, poet, and writer of children's literature.
Quotations
On the Spanish-American War:
Who serves his country best?
Not he who, for a brief and stormy space,
Leads forth her armies in the fierce array.
Short is the time of turmoil and unrest,
Long years succeed it and replace:
There is a better way.
He serves his country best
Who joins the tide that lifts her nobly on,
For speech has myriad tongues for every day
And song but one; and law within the breast
Is stronger than the graven law on stone;
This is a better way.
(“The Better Way”; photo freepages.genealogy.rootsweb)