The Doughboy's Poems of the World War While Over There: A Book Showing the Doughboy's Thoughts in Poems From Actual Experience in the Recent Conflict in Europe (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Funk, David M.

9781331751618: The Doughboy's Poems of the World War While Over There: A Book Showing the Doughboy's Thoughts in Poems From Actual Experience in the Recent Conflict in Europe (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331751616 ISBN 13: 9781331751618

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Doughboy's Poems of the World War While Over There: A Book Showing the Doughboy's Thoughts in Poems From Actual Experience in the Recent Conflict in Europe

The old five nine told to all a sad tone, And the whizbang killed by the score, It was sad to recall the lamentable moan, The effects of a barrage she put o'er, The long range guns shook the earth with a crush, And the trench mortar was worst of the lot.

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Excerpt from The Doughboy's Poems of the World War While Over There: A Book Showing the Doughboy's Thoughts in Poems From Actual Experience in the Recent Conflict in Europe

More than fifteen months as a doughboy, twelve of which has been spent over there, has led me to believe that there are many things in the army and its environment of which we might tell to the folks back home for interest, entertainment and knowledge. In bringing out these features of the doughboys' life I have tried to limit my poems on army subjects or within the close environments of this great war. The poems show the feeling of the doughboy and the home folks as they stand separated by that great gulf throughout this big game. The poems treat subjects in their reality as the doughboy witnessed them through out the game. They are a history within themselves. The author wishes to extend greetings to the ex-doughboys and the home folks who stood so faithful and loyal back of the government in the time of need.

The Battlefield

There's a field left in memory to the soldier lad,
And its fears yet seen by man;
Where once was all nature in its beauty it had,
Made by Gods wonderful hand.
But now as we glance she is in desolation,
From the momentous war we have fought,
And our heart is grieved as the youth of a nation,
Must die on that fateful spot.

There once grew the wheat and the golden corn,
And the fruit trees in blossom so sweet,
But all too soon came that fateful morn,
Just as sadness creeps nigh to the cheek.
The grain was all trampled by soldiers of men,
The fruit to the gas had to yield,
And such was a picture seen time and again,
On this wonderful battlefield.

There once worked the peasant in peaceful charm,
For his bread and butter to earn,
A paradise then was, that little farm,
He had all that his heart could yearn.
But now his plantation undone and torn,
Is the fate of a dangerous foe;
And his thoughts and family all in forlorn,
As it's struck by that terrible blow.

There once grazed the flock in grasses so green,
And the river babbled so clear;
And the birds, unmolested and seldom seen,
As they warbled their songs so dear.
But now the flocks are gone In despair,
And the river has changed to red;
From the sacrifice of youth so fair,
With the blood he's compelled to shed.

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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.