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)