From Old Fields
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217216739
Paperback|9780217216739
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THOSE MULES There 's much of horses in our songs and hearts ? We 've shaped and sung them since we have known how For when man's in the saddle he's a king Set over all afoot. But of the mule ? That understudy of the noble beast Who with the porker rules our modern war ? There never lifts a lay. The soldier knows The reason of it. 'T is the mule has wits, While horse has none. The knowing Greeks knew that - At least, last half of it ? for they well-named The horse as Allogon ? the senseless thing; Who owns the master's hand and so is praised: While mule for his stout will is ever damned In this world and the next; so far as words And whacks can do it. ? Here 's a tale or two To show what makes the soldier hate a mule And something of their ways. An afternoon In August; with but a hundred yards between Our line and Johnny's. Air is hot and still And mostly made of horseflies. The captain seeks A moment's sleep. Last night Rebs had him up From two o'clock 'till daybreak ? just for fun, Also to wear him out ? the way of war ? Civil or other. Now the captain dreams Of a fair nook beside the soothing sea, When all at once the picket where the mules Are anchored is in uproar: five of them With that stout set back full they do so well Have parted cables, bray their triumph forth, And set their noses south. The captain jumps For saddle-horse, rides hard to turn them back: Heads two and shoots them: shouts to sentinels And outposts for like help, but they aim wild. They 're good at hitting widows' cows at night, But mighty poor at mules. So on they go, Leaping like antelopes, until they come Right in the Johnnies' lines. They 're welcome there, Roared by ten thousand, and are marched away ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217216739 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217216730 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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