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Show A TKIItVTE TO THOOP E. Mrs. Artie I). Anderson with others from Moroni were at Mount Pleasant Monday morning when the inllltla left for Salt Lake Hy. At the sight of the soldiers In their uniforms proudly marching under the flaunting Hag. keeping time to the grand music of war. anil the parting of the soldiers sol-diers from their loved ones impressed impress-ed her so much that she wrote the following poem In their honor. Our Mllltln Hoys of Troop E. It Is Monday morning and the 26th of June. At 5 o'clock our little towns are all astir; What in the cause the people rise so soon ? Oh! wait you will soon hear the bugle call, And that oh, that will tell you all Our boys this morn for Mexico must start. Oh! the nches and fears of loving hearts. Hnrk! Hark! there Is the bugle call Tlie boys fall In rank, four and four abreast. Low the bugle sounds. Then the drummer gives Ihe marching tap-taps. Their steps are firm and perfect too. All can see they are proud of the khaki and the blue. How grand to view-All view-All equipped anil eager for their horses, too. Put the throng's so great they can't pass through, Then the command. "Itreak line boys," It was as an electric shock. Oh the last farewells Fathers, mothers, wives and sweethearts. sweet-hearts. The parting Is loo much for thee, I see young brides pressed to the soldier's breast. One cannot bear to see much more. And thousands of eyes were streaming o'er, Hut hark -the trnln approaches, And nil Is as hUHhod ns deiilh. Then amid shouts and cheeis I Their com null's from Manll nnd I Kphrnlm, From the windows thrust their heads, The hand starts up, "My Country 'TIs of Thee." Then for the hoys three rnUHlnr cheers. All aboard the last coach, Is the cry - Their Inst goodbye, I cannot, cannot lei you go, Darling, do not cry, goodlive, goodbye. good-bye. An the train pulls off mid hIiouIh and cheers, The bund Is playing -"And the Hlar Spangled Manner, ()h! long 1 1 1 n y il wave, O're I he bind of I he free And the home of the brave." M rs. Artie D. A nilomoii. |