<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“The March of the Idaho</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” </span></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">By </span>Sergeant T. L. Jennings, ‘19</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">B Battery, 146</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 8.399999618530273px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Field Artillery, AEF</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Swinging down a sunny s</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">treet, '</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">neath</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a poplar row,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">S</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">miling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lean and br</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">own and long of gait, led by st</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ripe and star,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Twenty hundred </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Idahos</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> are</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> marching off to war.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Rifles, bells.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> blanket-</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pac</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ks</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> bayonets a clank.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stepping to a lively tune come khaki rank on rank,</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Steady mien and steady eye, swift and keen o</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">f glance.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Oh, what goodly fighting men are moving out to </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Franc</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Bringing tang of Northern pine, </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cooled by </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">crystal lake</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Bringi</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ng breath of scented sage, along the sullen Snake,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">F</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lus</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hed with fruit and meadow bloom, sun and wind and rain</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Twenty </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hundred </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">W</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eslern</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> men are on the Trail again.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">See the faces flashi</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ng by-oh, the parting lip</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Straining toward a Jersey dock where </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lie the waiting ships</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">S</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">training toward the weary men who hold the hardy wall.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Twenty hundred volunteers in a</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nswer to the Call.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Dawn is gold o'er Northern pine, gold o'er </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">crystal lake</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Dawn is</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> red o'er barren brush along th</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e sullen Snake.</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Gold and red shall have t</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">heir hearts, out across the foam</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till parted lips shall turn to seek the purple hills of Home.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Swing</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing down a sunny street.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">' </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">neath</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a poplar row,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lean and brown and long of gait, led by st</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ripe and star,</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Twenty hundred </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Idahos</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> are marc</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hing off to war.</span></span></p></div><div><br></div>———————————————-<br><br><div><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" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</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><br></div></div></body></html>