THE OLD OVERSEAS CAP
The war of the Trojans and all the Greek crewWas fought for the sake of a fair lady whoWent absent without leave, for weal or for woe,And took her permission to Paris to go.All Greeks grasped steel helmets and trench knives and tanksAnd wheel teams and chariots and fell into ranks.Shipping boards gave no trouble with quarrels or slips:The beauty of Helen had launched all the ships.All cautioned their sweethearts that since they must go,To keep home hearths heated, on flirting go slow;For each warrior was off to the battle and strifeTo make the world safe for a good-looking wife.But they’d never have fought if they’d read Helen’s note,Which just before leaving she hastily wrote:“Menelaus just entered our once happy homeWith an overseas cap on the top of his dome!”Fairfax D. Downey, 1st Lt., F.A.
The war of the Trojans and all the Greek crewWas fought for the sake of a fair lady whoWent absent without leave, for weal or for woe,And took her permission to Paris to go.All Greeks grasped steel helmets and trench knives and tanksAnd wheel teams and chariots and fell into ranks.Shipping boards gave no trouble with quarrels or slips:The beauty of Helen had launched all the ships.All cautioned their sweethearts that since they must go,To keep home hearths heated, on flirting go slow;For each warrior was off to the battle and strifeTo make the world safe for a good-looking wife.But they’d never have fought if they’d read Helen’s note,Which just before leaving she hastily wrote:“Menelaus just entered our once happy homeWith an overseas cap on the top of his dome!”Fairfax D. Downey, 1st Lt., F.A.
The war of the Trojans and all the Greek crewWas fought for the sake of a fair lady whoWent absent without leave, for weal or for woe,And took her permission to Paris to go.
The war of the Trojans and all the Greek crew
Was fought for the sake of a fair lady who
Went absent without leave, for weal or for woe,
And took her permission to Paris to go.
All Greeks grasped steel helmets and trench knives and tanksAnd wheel teams and chariots and fell into ranks.Shipping boards gave no trouble with quarrels or slips:The beauty of Helen had launched all the ships.
All Greeks grasped steel helmets and trench knives and tanks
And wheel teams and chariots and fell into ranks.
Shipping boards gave no trouble with quarrels or slips:
The beauty of Helen had launched all the ships.
All cautioned their sweethearts that since they must go,To keep home hearths heated, on flirting go slow;For each warrior was off to the battle and strifeTo make the world safe for a good-looking wife.
All cautioned their sweethearts that since they must go,
To keep home hearths heated, on flirting go slow;
For each warrior was off to the battle and strife
To make the world safe for a good-looking wife.
But they’d never have fought if they’d read Helen’s note,Which just before leaving she hastily wrote:“Menelaus just entered our once happy homeWith an overseas cap on the top of his dome!”Fairfax D. Downey, 1st Lt., F.A.
But they’d never have fought if they’d read Helen’s note,
Which just before leaving she hastily wrote:
“Menelaus just entered our once happy home
With an overseas cap on the top of his dome!”
Fairfax D. Downey, 1st Lt., F.A.