Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — THE ARMY'S SOUL. [ARTICLE]

THE ARMY'S SOUL.

The bass-drum Is the army’s heart. Oh! hear it thump and beat. And endleaa lines es marching men Compose the army's feet. The bugle la the army’s voice; Far over vale and hill It calls the soldier to the flag In accents sweet and shrill. The gun, with tongue of darting flame And black ,'lps grinning wide And hungry, Is the army's mouth That gapes unsatisfied; And In the mighty battleplane Arising to Its goal On wings that brush the starry dome. Behold the army’s soul! —Mina Irving, In Leslie**.