<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><b>“The March of the Idahos”</b></div><div>By Sergeant T. L. Jennings, 1919</div><div>B Battery, 146th Field Artillery, AEF</div><div><br></div><div>Swinging clown a sunny street, 'neath a poplar row,</div><div>Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,</div><div>Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,</div><div>Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.</div><div> </div><div>Rifles, bells. and blanket-packs, bayonets a clank.</div><div>Stepping to a lively tune come khaki rank on rank,</div><div>Steady mien and steady eye, swift and keen of glance.</div><div>Oh, what goodly fighting men are moving out to France.</div><div> </div><div>Bringing tang of Northern pine, cooled by crystal lake.</div><div>Bringing breath of scented sage, along the sullen Snake,</div><div>Flushed with fruit and meadow bloom, sun and wind and rain.</div><div>Twenty hundred western men are on the trail again.</div><div> </div><div>See the faces flashing by—-oh, the parting lips,</div><div>Straining toward a Jersey dock where lie the waiting ships.</div><div>Straining toward the weary men who hold the hardy wall.</div><div>Twenty hundred volunteers in answer to the Call.</div><div> </div><div>Dawn is gold o'er Northern pine, gold o'er crystal lake.</div><div>Dawn is red o'er barren brush along the sullen Snake.</div><div>Gold and red shall have their hearts, out across the foam</div><div>Till parted lips shall turn to seek the purple hills of Home.</div><div> </div><div>Swinging down a sunny street. ' neath a poplar row,</div><div>Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,</div><div>Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,</div><div>Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><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>