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Show - J The Last Salvo i I Two minutes before eleven o'clock I the lust shell shrieked over No Man's g I Land Hostilities ended with n , I tremendous crash of American raiuion. ( I fable DisDntc.li. I Ghost ot Molly Pitcher at Monmouth, I Did you hear that last crash of thundei J ! Shaking the hills from the Vosjres to the , I Marnt, I And the whole world rocking under? I 1 Did you stop m you swabbed the wraitb ! of your gun, And cooled its hot throat with water, I To hark to the Yanks' good-by to the I Hun J Across the red fields of slaughter? Seventy-five miles of fire and flame, B I Volcano and earthquake combining, I ' Trainloads and shiploads of shot and shell J . Roaring and shrieking and whining. . The ground swung round like a weathei I vane, ' 1 And the rivers heaved that were neai J I il I Oh, ghost of old mad Anthony Wayne I At Stony Point, did you bear it? I Hickory Jackson at New Orleans, a In the sand-bagged trenches kneeling I Did it knock your cocked bat from yom a head J 1 When you heard our big guns pealing 'i ( J Shaking the skies with their awful din , I Like the fourteen demands of Wilson. Smashing the window panes in Berlin ' And bursting the bongs In Pilsen. J This was the way it came to an end, I Thus was the test word spoken I ' From the narrow seas to beyond th J j Rhine, I As the world lay black and broken; Twas thus was said good-by to the I J Huns, . I Doomed with their proud commanders, ( I When the hills were rocked from the 1 Yankee guns, J Over the fields of Flanders. ! John S. McGroarty in the Los A.igeles . I Times. |