The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-03
Amateur Poets Corner

| An1Qteg13" Poets Corner
War poets have been busy again. and from
the many manuscripts submitted. The Forum
selects the following for publication:
A Song for America from the knights OF
Modern Modern. Syria by W. A. Neinna Of Fargo
We love thy flag Of liberty
Thy firmness for the cause of right
Our light and hope shall ever be.
Thou alone art Freedoms land.
Thy mighty and yet patient hand
Shall drive the Hun from tortured SOIL
And bring hope again to No Mans Land.
When Wilson stretched his hand to France.
He flung aloft the free mans lance IFS
And Chateau Tllerry and the Marine, e
Columba's record must enhance
When the sun of peace once more has smiled,
All lands by Turk and Hun defiled
VIII lift their voice in chorussed praise
From the birthplace OF the Holy Child.
Let Freedoms star more brightly shine,
For justice to all men oppressed
America, thy land and mine.
Hardy Parmel Mystrom of Palermo, N. d.
submits the following:
When the mountain peaks of Tibet have been
to desert sand;
When the pyramids Of Egypt and the sphynx no
longer stand; b. =
When the pre- historic caveman has returned to
When above him on its wings of myth the tabled
doth soar 81.
When the long forgotten dodo in great numbers
has returned; u
When the Philippines have disappeared, and the
Caspian sea has burned;
When Maine has moved to Mexico, and Lake
Huron has gone dry;
When the nightingale is songless and the croco-
die fly;
When the Paleozoic era once more enwraps the
earth; II.
When Pluto is the God of War, and Mars, the
When the hippipotomus has wings and the rat
tlesnake has feet;
When the moon has dropped from heaven, and
the sun has lost its heat
When all of this has happened, and all must yet
begin;
Then, and not till them shall the Central Powers
win!
Mrs. John Forsyth Of Fargo submitted the fol-
lowing entitled What The Waves Are Saying
Do you ask what the waves saying to me?
They bring memories Of my childhood while sit
ting at my mothers knee, beside the sea.
listened to her tales of fairy love, and Of
castles old,
Within whose Anticipated halls fair women mingl-
ed with their warriors bold
Or, when the ever changing fleecy clouds filled
the western sky, .r
We made pictures Of mountains, grottos, tes-
selated towers, and peoped them with the
fantastic forms that fitted by
They tell of great ships and their conveys sail
ing over the sea, .~.
Carrying comforts Tor the SICK IoCd TOT the as
tressed, and brave soldiers, to help free
The yoke of tyranny from that oppressed and
homeless band
Victims of murderous crueltles ordered by the
constituencies Wilhelm's hand
Do you ask what the waves are saying to me?
all over the sea
AS they beat a last requiem along the lonely
shores '....
For the countless cities of the dead that within
its bosom lie,
DER it's depths, drawing down with them in
nocent souls, doomed to die
BY that stern and relentless foe, the man with
a Withered arm called Hohenzollern
All me, that should have lived these long and
peaceful years to see 1EE -.
The dogs of war, unchainedseto deyastate both
land and sea: 1$ SkER u.s
But as the TEMPEST tossed mariner welcomes the
distant familiar light
The gloom is dispelIed by hope, our guiding star.
and victory, it's beacon, will shed it's efrul-
gence Ger the path OF safety and welcome
for the home coming and pride Of their
tion-our boys
Whose voices viii again resound with our own
throughout the land in a song Of Thanks
giving that the Star Spangled Banner still
waves DER the land of the free and the home
From M. G. Bgan of Homestead, Mont. comes
the following entitled Halt The Hun: g..
A million weeping mothers from expressions
tidal wave,
ADwas the cry Of battling freedom, help us stem
the Prussian might
We drew the blade Of Liberty to battle for the
right ..r
Halt the Hun, will be battle cry, in freedoms
svery note, = F.. g..
Wen crush the Wanted Hindenburg and get the
kaiser's goat
Sons of freedom, keep your courage, your trials
will not be long,
We are with you to the finish, yes, a hundred
million strong.
Chorus s
OH no matter what they say, ,..
You bank on u. S. A.
Yes. wen be there with shout
When the kaiser is counted out
For I'm SON of a-gun we'll halt
the Hun, se ~ u.s.
II il takes our all to do IL IL