Ode To Major Robert Lewis
BONUS FOR OUR BOYS
Uncle Sam should give a bonus
To the boys he sent to France.
He should also give a bonus
To those boys he held in camps.
We gave ten billion dollars
To protect our allied shores
Against the most desperate army
That we have any history of.
We aid all our big industries
The railroads when they rock;
To hold them up in business
We allow them to issue stock.
If there is one returned hero
That is inefficient now,
In all honest candor
We ask, Who made him so?
How well we yet remember
The place where last we stood,
The day our boys departed
For the unknown battle front.
We said, "Good-bye, dear brother,"
Or "Farewell, dear son."
A fervent prayer we offered
For their safe return.
Congress, we petition
In behalf of our noble sons,
A bonus should be paid
To each and every one.
They saved our flag and country;
They faced the German guns,
And won a world victory
In the famous woods of. Argonne.
The Plains Poems in Kansas
J. P. Dunn
(Independence: --. 19??)
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