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Show THE BANNERS OF WHAT? FROM Annie Pike Greenwood of Hazelton, Idaho, comes the following follow-ing poem. Mrs. Greenwood was formerly for-merly Annie Pike, who at one time was a teacher of English in the Agricultural Agri-cultural College in Logan and afterwards after-wards a reporter on a local paper in which her stories of "The Girl in White" attracted a great deal of attention. atten-tion. She is a daughter of Dr. Walter R. Pike of St. George, Utah: They are marching, marching, marching, march-ing, In their uniforms of green; From Pacific to Atlantic, All the country in between. And the farmer is their captain, And his boy their maitial band; As he whistles whilst he leads he leads them, Across the waiting land. They are marching, marching; marching, march-ing, From the sea unto the sea; With their banners waving fearlessly, To make the nations free! And "Forward!" calls the farmer, All the day from early dawn; While the farmer's lad is whistling clear To cheer the army on. They are marching, marching, marching, march-ing, Up the hill and down the dale; And I feel they must be dreaming, Of the moment when they'll sail Across the great Atlantic To take at last their place In honor's steadfast trenches And save the world disgrace. .They are marching, marching, marching, march-ing, Till they'll change their uniform To the sun's undaunted yellow That defiles the foeman's storm. And the farmer is their captain, And his boy their martial band; As he whistles while he leads them, Across the waiting land. |