Name/Title
Poems from WWI soldierScope and Content
Four short poems written on stationary from the YMCA. From the content it would appear it is the writings of a soldier though there is no signature.
Heading on the stationary reads:
ARMY AND NAVY
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
'WITH THE COLORS'
The U.S. flag is shown in the upper left corner and the YMCA symbol is in the upper right corner of the stationary.
On the very bottom of the page in blue lettering:
To the writer: Save by writing on BOTH sides of this paper.
To the follks at home: Save food, Buy Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps
First of two poems on the front side:
Last night as I lay a sleeping
A terrible dream came to me
I saw my Commander a weeping
In a way that was awful to see
I went to him in apprehension
Just to see what there was I could do
And he said as I came to attention,
" What in Hell is the matter with you"?
Second of poems on the front side:
If you don't like your beans and hard-tack
If you don't like your slum gulion and stew
No matter what you eat
The table's always neat
And there's no kick coming from you
If you don't like your thirty bucks monthly
And you're done at the Mess Sergeant too
Then remember my boy, it's no mama
It's Uncle Sam that's feeding you.
First of Poems on the back side:
There are smiles for General Pershing
There are smiles for Grant and Lee
There are smiles for all the Allied Nations
Who are fighting cross the deep blue sea
There are smiles for Abraham Lincoln
And the flag that sets the negro free
But the smiles for Woodrow Wilson
Are the smiles for Democracy
Second Poem on the back side:
There are styles that show the ankle
There are styles that show the knee
There are styles that show the disposition
There are styles that don't appeal to me
There are styles that date way back to Adam
When they wore the fig leaf from the tree
But the styles that Eve wore in the garden
Are the styles that appeal to me
*Note: These are typed as they appear on the paper. Some words are difficult to make out, so tried to guess what they were or just left blank.Acquisition
Accession
2015.0041Source or Donor
Mrs. Vivian GraunkeAcquisition Method
Donation
