War libraries and allied studies . o o u £ -*; >> l-H HH E 03 a. OJ § — < SO & O c u « — &- o o O GO •— H —> X on O -a — 93 £ 14 lu o . SINGING SOLDIERS 221 body reading is Rupert Brookes poems. When themen sing among the shell holes they seem to prefera song with patriotic flavor which burlesques theirown heroism. Picture to yourself, LieutenantDawson adds, a company of mud-stained men insteel helmets plodding their way under intermittentshelling through a battered trench, whistling andhiimming the following splendid sentiments of TheComplaint of the Conscientious Objector: Send u
War libraries and allied studies . o o u £ -*; >> l-H HH E 03 a. OJ § — < SO & O c u « — &- o o O GO •— H —> X on O -a — 93 £ 14 lu o . SINGING SOLDIERS 221 body reading is Rupert Brookes poems. When themen sing among the shell holes they seem to prefera song with patriotic flavor which burlesques theirown heroism. Picture to yourself, LieutenantDawson adds, a company of mud-stained men insteel helmets plodding their way under intermittentshelling through a battered trench, whistling andhiimming the following splendid sentiments of TheComplaint of the Conscientious Objector: Send us the army and the navy. Send us the rank and file,Send us the grand old territorials, theyll face the danger with a are the boys of the old brigade who made old England free?You may send my mother, my sister and my brother,But for Gawds sake dont send me. It is perhaps of interest to state that the last lineis always shouted. I am tempted at this point,he continues, to be discursive and ask how it isthat the doggerel poetry, which really represents ourchaps, has never got out of the mud and back tocivilization. Its all a mad bur
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