<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"The March of the Idahos" </b></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">b</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">y Sergeant T. L. Jennings, ‘19 </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">B Battery, 146</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Field Artillery, AEF</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Swinging down a sunny s</span><span class="s2">treet, '</span><span class="s2">neath</span><span class="s2"> a poplar row,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">S</span><span class="s2">miling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Lean and br</span><span class="s2">own and long of gait, led by st</span><span class="s2">ripe and star,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Twenty hundred </span><span class="s2">Idahos</span><span class="s2"> are</span><span class="s2"> marching off to war.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Rifles, bells.</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">and</span><span class="s2"> blanket-</span><span class="s2">pac</span><span class="s2">ks</span><span class="s2">,</span><span class="s2"> bayonets a clank.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stepping to a lively tune come khaki rank on rank,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Steady mien and steady eye, swift and keen o</span><span class="s2">f glance.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Oh, what goodly fighting men are moving out to </span><span class="s2">Franc</span><span class="s2">e.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Bringing tang of Northern pine, </span><span class="s2">cooled by </span><span class="s2">crystal lake</span><span class="s2">.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Bringi</span><span class="s2">ng breath of scented sage, along the sullen Snake,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">F</span><span class="s2">lus</span><span class="s2">hed with fruit and meadow bloom, sun and wind and rain</span><span class="s2">.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Twenty </span><span class="s2">hundred </span><span class="s2">W</span><span class="s2">estern</span><span class="s2"> men are on the Trail again.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">See the faces flashi</span><span class="s2">ng by - oh, the parting lip</span><span class="s2">s,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Straining toward a Jersey dock where </span><span class="s2">lie the waiting ships</span><span class="s2">.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">S</span><span class="s2">training toward the weary men who hold the hardy wall.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Twenty hundred volunteers in a</span><span class="s2">nswer to the Call.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Dawn is gold o'er Northern pine, gold o'er </span><span class="s2">crystal lake</span><span class="s2">.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Dawn is</span><span class="s2"> red o'er barren brush along th</span><span class="s2">e sullen Snake.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Gold and red shall have t</span><span class="s2">heir hearts, out across the foam</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till parted lips shall turn to seek the purple hills of Home.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Swing</span><span class="s2">ing down a sunny street,</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">'</span><span class="s2">neath</span><span class="s2"> a poplar row,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Lean and brown and long of gait, led by st</span><span class="s2">ripe and star,</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Twenty hundred </span><span class="s2">Idahos</span><span class="s2"> are marc</span><span class="s2">hing off to war.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">--------------------------------------</span></span></p><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></body></html>