StoryTitle("caps", "Parade Song of the Camp Animals ") ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Elephants of the Gun Teams") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We bowed our necks to service: they ne'er were loosed again,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make way there—way for the ten-foot teams", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Of the Forty-Pounder train!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Gun Bullocks") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what they know of powder upsets them one and all;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then we come into action and tug the guns again—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make way there—way for the twenty yoke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Of the Forty-Pounder train!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Cavalry Horses") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it's sweeter than \"Stables\" or \"Water\" to me—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Cavalry Canter of \"Bonnie Dundee!\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(304, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then feed us and break us and handle and groom,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And give us good riders and plenty of room,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And launch us in column of squadron and see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The way of the war-horse to \"Bonnie Dundee!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Screw-Gun Mules") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As me and my companions were scrambling up a hill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The path was lost in rolling stones, but we went forward still;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For we can wriggle and climb, my lads, and turn up everywhere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, it's our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good luck to every sergeant, then, that lets us pick our road;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bad luck to all the driver-men that cannot pack a load:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For we can wriggle and climb, my lads, and turn up everywhere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, it's our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Commissariat Camels") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We haven't a camelty tune of our own", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To help us trollop along,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But every neck is a hair trombone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " (Rtt-ta-ta-ta! is a hair trombone!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this our marching-song:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can't! Don't! Shan't! Won't!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pass it along the line!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Somebody's pack has slid from his back,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wish it were only mine!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Somebody's load has tipped off in the road—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cheer for a halt and a row!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Urrr! Yarrh! Grr! Arrh!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Somebody's catching it now!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "All the Beasts Together") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children of the Camp are we,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Serving each in his degree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children of the yoke and goad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pack and harness, pad and load.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See our line across the plain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a heel-rope bent again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Reaching, writhing, rolling far,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweeping all away to war!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the men that walk beside,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannot tell why we or they", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "March and suffer day by day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Children of the Camp are we,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Serving each in his degree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Children of the yoke and goad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Pack and harness, pad and load!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>