The American Soldier
Deep in a vale, a stranger now to arms,
Too poor to shine in courts, too proud to beg,
He, who once warred on Saratoga’s plains, . . .
Deep in a vale, a stranger now to arms,
Too poor to shine in courts, too proud to beg,
He, who once warred on Saratoga’s plains, . . .
“Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing
On the west wind blowing along this valley track?”
“The downhill path is easy, come with me an it please ye, . . .
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness . . .
Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from college
one winter, hauling a load of Herefords
from Hogtown to Guymon with a pint of . . .
At night, alone, the animals came and shone.
The darkness whirled but silent shone the animals:
The lion the man the calf the eagle saying . . .
Out of me unworthy and unknown
The vibrations of deathless music;
“With malice toward none, with charity for all.” . . .
Once you saw a drove of young pigs
crossing the highway. One of them
pulling his body by the front feet,
. . .
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle . . .
We have walked in Love's land a little way,
We have learnt his lesson a little while,
And shall we not part at the end of day, . . .
Side by side through the streets at midnight,
Roaming together,
Through the tumultuous night of London, . . .