Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1920 — AFTERMATH. [ARTICLE]

AFTERMATH.

The boatswain does not pipe us now, the coxswain does not call; We do not stir at reveille and rise to curse It all. Oone are the watches, ships and crew; the danger, toll and strife; The war Is over now and we ere back —,— Tet shall we, shall we. soon forget that life of yesterday— The ships, the men, the ports, the stars, the seas, the open way? "~ In future years amid the joys of friends and home again Will dreams not come like rising tides to haunt us now and then? Will dreams not come like Channel dawns to tow us from the room? Will ships not rise before our eyes and beckon In the gloom? Shall we not hear as through a fog some, lonely bell buoy ring. And yearn again for ships and men and high adventuring? Ays, memories shall come again like mists above the sea, And all the years ahead shall know and breathe the used-to-be; nie used-to-be of ships, of men, blue water, wind and skies— And who, shipmates, among us now would have It otherwise? —Morrow Mayo In Home Sector-