Rookie Rhymes
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Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published September, 1917
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| Publication Committee | [13] |
| Foreword | [15] |
| Robert Tapley, Co. 5, 1st P. T. R. | |
PART I—POEMS | |
| Standing in Line | [19] |
| Morris Bishop, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The First Time | [21] |
| Onward Christian Science | [22] |
| D. E. Currier, 2d Battery, 1st P. T. R. | |
| They Believe in Us Back Home | [24] |
| Anch Kline, Co. 1, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Ode to a Lady in White Stockings | [29] |
| Robert Cutler, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| "Avoirdupois" | [31] |
| D. E. Currier, 2d Battery, 1st P.T.R. | |
| Go! | [35] |
| J. S. O'Neale, Jr., Co. 4, 2d P. T. R. | |
| The Plattsburg Code | [36] |
| R. L. Hill, Co. 5, 2d P. T. R. | |
| A Conference | [38] |
| Donald E. Currier, 2d Battery, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Sunday in Barracks | [41] |
| Anch Kline, Co. 1, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The Ballad of Montmorency Gray | [43] |
| Pendleton King, Co. 6, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Girls | [51] |
| Robert M. Benjamin, Co. 3, 1st P. T. R. | |
| A Lament | [52] |
| H. Chapin, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The Manual | [53] |
| George S. Clarkson, Co. 4, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Those "Patriotic" Songs | [55] |
| Frank J. Felbel, Co. 2, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Saturday P.M. | [58] |
| Harold Amory, Co. 5, 1st P. T. R. | |
| How Things Have Changed | [62] |
| C. K. Stodder, Co. 9, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Arma Feminamque | [63] |
| W. R. Witherell, Co. 7, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Out o' Luck | [65] |
| W. K. Rainsford, Co. 7, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Sherman Was Right | [69] |
| Joe F. Trounstine, Co. 4, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Troopship Chanty | [70] |
| Harold Speakman, Co. 4, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Those Rumors | [71] |
| F. L. Bird, 2d Battery, 1st P. T. R. | |
| War's Horrors | [72] |
| Kenneth McIntosh, 2d Lieut. O. R. C., Co. 4, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The Call | [73] |
| Allen Bean MacMurphy, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Beans | [74] |
| Charles H. Ramsey, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Forward "?" | [77] |
| John W. Wilber, Co. 5, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Chant of a Derelict | [78] |
| Ed. Burrows, Co. 3, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Preoccupation | [80] |
| Charles H. Ramsey, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Inoculation Day | [83] |
| Morris Bishop, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Don't Weaken | [85] |
| R. T. Fry, Co. 5, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The Three | [87] |
| Harold Speakman, Co. 4, 2d P. T. R. | |
| To the Little Black Dog | [89] |
| A. N. Phillips, Jr., 3d Battery, 1st P. T. R. | |
| When East is West | [90] |
| W. R. Witherell, Co. 7, 2d P. T. R. | |
| To My Sweetheart | [92] |
| Every Rookie in Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Play the Game | [93] |
| E. F. D., Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The Stadium, Plattsburg | [95] |
| Harold Speakman, Co. 4, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Rubaiyat of a Plattsburg Candidate | [96] |
| W. Kerr Rainsford, Co. 7, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Dreams | [99] |
| L. Irving, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| A 2d Regiment "Who's Who" | [101] |
| J. Elmer Cates, Co. 2, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Eureka | [105] |
| E. F. D., Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Fourth Company, N. E. Song | [106] |
| George S. Clarkson, Co. 4, 1st P. T. R. | |
PART II—SONGS AND PARODIES | |
| Long, Long Trail | [109] |
| G. Gilmore Davis, Co. 10, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Willie's Pa | [110] |
| J. Felbel and L. H. Davidow, Co. 2, 2d P. T. R. | |
| Company 2, New England | [112] |
| Paul J. Field, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| To the Reserve Cavalry | [113] |
| F. E. Horpel, Co. 9, 1st P. T. R. | |
| We're on Our Way to Deutschland | [114] |
| Lieut. Fletcher Clark, O. R. C., Co. 10, 1st P. T. R. | |
| I Want to Be a Colonel | [115] |
| F. E. Horpel, Co. 9, 1st P. T. R. | |
| I Want to Be a Doughboy | [116] |
| Kenneth Bonner, Co. 10, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Our Battle Hymn | [117] |
| James C. McMullin, Co. 5, 1st P. T. R. | |
| New England Will Be Leading | [119] |
| Lieut. Cyril C. Reynolds, O. R. C., Co. 10, 1st P. T. R. | |
| On the Banks of the River Rhine | [120] |
| J. J. Riodan, Co. 3, 2d P. T. R. | |
| "The Simulating of the Green" | [121] |
| Lieut. Joseph Gazzam, Jr., O. R. C., Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Don't Send Me Home | [123] |
| E. M. Anderson, Co. 2, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Company Nine | [124] |
| O. W. Hauserman, Co. 9, 1st P. T. R. | |
| We're On Our Way To Europe | [126] |
| T. L. Wood, Co. 9, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Company 5 Song | [127] |
| James C. McMullin, Co. 5, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Double Time | [128] |
| W. J. Littlefield, 3d Battery, 1st P. T. R. | |
| The 8th New England | [130] |
| Anonymous, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Marching on the Rhine | [132] |
| Lieut. Cyril C. Reynolds, O. R. C., Co. 10, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Eggs—agerated | [133] |
| Robert B. House, Co. 8, 1st P. T. R. | |
| With Apologies To Kipling's "The Vampire" | [134] |
| R. E. Hall, 1st Troop, 1st P. T. R. | |
| Finis | [136] |