. History and rhymes of the lost battalion . While comrades you loved as brothers and more,Lay wounded, and moaning in pain. In your heart a gnawing emptiness—Was that costly price worth the gain? W6ll, for three days we went, till our strengthwas spent, Midst sights too terrible to tell,By the time we landed in a trap that night, I can tell you, wed all seen hell. Exhausted from fighting and dead for dug ourselves in for the night; And as we lay there neath the shell-split air,We felt twas the end of our fight. At break of dawn the Boche closed in. We met him face to face—And many th
. History and rhymes of the lost battalion . While comrades you loved as brothers and more,Lay wounded, and moaning in pain. In your heart a gnawing emptiness—Was that costly price worth the gain? W6ll, for three days we went, till our strengthwas spent, Midst sights too terrible to tell,By the time we landed in a trap that night, I can tell you, wed all seen hell. Exhausted from fighting and dead for dug ourselves in for the night; And as we lay there neath the shell-split air,We felt twas the end of our fight. At break of dawn the Boche closed in. We met him face to face—And many there were who fell that day, But night found us still in our place. Rhymesof a Lost BattalionDoughboy*. Rhymes of a Lost Battalion Doughboy For three long days we fought in that trap,In mud clear up to our knees, Sleepless, hungry, dying from thirst,Neath those splintered Argonne trees. K^ All hopes gone, our hearts in despair,When a whisper came down the line, At last the longed-for relief had arrived,God knows it came just in time. We went at the food like a pack of wolves,That had starved the whole winter through. And between the munching of bites youd hearMumbled prayers, and curses, too. No one could picture, try as they might, The horror and hell of it company lost ninety men before night, It seemed to matter as nothing at ail. 1
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