The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926 Page: 34
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THE AVESTA
The Kid
I watched you march down a dusty pike,
One of so many-so much alike-
With a spirit keen as a breath of flame,
Ready to rise and ready to strike,
Whenever the fitting moment came,-
Just a kid, with a boyish grin,
Waiting the order to hustle in,
And lend your soul to the battle thrill,
Unafraid of the battle din,
Or the guns that crashed from a hidden hill.
I watched you leap to the big advance,
With a smile for fate and its fighting chance,
Sweeping on till the charge was done;
I saw your grave on a slope of France,
Where you fell asleep when the fight was won,
Just a kid who had earned his rest,
With a rifle and helmet above his breast
Who proved, in answer to statesmen's fears,
That a kid can charge a machine gun nest,
Without the training of forty years.
I watched the shadows drifting by,
As gray dusk came from a summer sky
And lost winds came from behind the fight,
And I seemed to hear them croon and sigh:
"Sleep, little dreamer, sleep tonight;
Sleep tonight, for I'm bringing you
A prayer and a dream from the home you knew-
And I'll take them word of the big advance,
And how you fought till the game was through,-
And you fell asleep in the dust of France."
--Duncan Robinsovn34
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North Texas State Teachers College. The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926, periodical, Winter 1926; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2105597/m1/36/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.