[Vision2020] The March of the Idahos

[Moscow Cares]

“The March of the Idahos” 
by Sergeant T. L. Jennings
B Battery, 146th Field Artillery, AEF
1919

Swinging clown a sunny street, 'neath a poplar row,
Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,
Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,
Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.
 
Rifles, bells. and blanket-pac ks, bayonets a clank.
Stepping to a lively tune come khaki rank on rank,
Steady mien and steady eye, swift and keen of glance.
Oh, what goodly fighting men are moving out to France.
 
Bringing tang of Northern pine, cooled by crystal lake.
Bringing breath of scented sage, along the sullen Snake,
Flushed with fruit and meadow bloom, sun and wind and rain.
Twenty hundred  Weslern men are on the trail again.
 
See the faces flashing by-oh, the parting lips,
Straining toward a Jersey dock where lie the waiting ships.
Straining toward the weary men who hold the hardy wall.
Twenty hundred volunteers in answer to the Call.
 
Dawn is gold o'er Northern pine, gold o'er crystal lake.
Dawn is red o'er barren brush along the sullen Snake.
Gold and red shall have their hearts, out across the foam
Till parted lips shall turn to seek the purple hills of Home.
 
Swinging down a sunny street. ' neath a poplar row,
Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,
Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,
Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.

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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
  
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