. History and rhymes of the lost battalion . Finally five-thirty, the Zero Hour came,And the word passed down the line. Go Over the Top, and Play the Game,And break their damn Kremhilde lines. **Rhymes of a Lost Battalion Doughboy. r/t>^ What did we find when finally On TopIn that waste called No Mans Land? An ocean of wire in the mist and the fog,Placed there by the devils hand. Ail day long we pushed them back, By night wed their second line trench, Then we dug in, and waited for him,By morn, with the rain we were drenched. The men were gaunt with hunger,For what food we had was gone, And

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. History and rhymes of the lost battalion . Finally five-thirty, the Zero Hour came,And the word passed down the line. Go Over the Top, and Play the Game,And break their damn Kremhilde lines. **Rhymes of a Lost Battalion Doughboy. r/t>^ What did we find when finally On TopIn that waste called No Mans Land? An ocean of wire in the mist and the fog,Placed there by the devils hand. Ail day long we pushed them back, By night wed their second line trench, Then we dug in, and waited for him,By morn, with the rain we were drenched. The men were gaunt with hunger,For what food we had was gone, And there was the Boche ahead of we pushed on, and on and on! Were you ever out on the battlefields,With the dead just stacked all around. The earth in a tremble from fear and the blood on its sacred ground?

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