Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-16
SOLDIERS
LETTERS.
THE CROWN PRINCES DREAM
a SAD ENDING.


The Prince and staff in serious mood
Looking westward with lustful eye
To capture Paris or else to die
Ho, my braves, shall we take the
chance
Our meagre fortunes. to enhance?
In Paris there lies the cream of
France.
To drink the nectar will make you
dance.
Then forward, drive the salient deep
er,
Into her heart as tho reaper
Had cut the grain and cast it down,
Opening the way for the victor's
crown;
But Prince, on the southern height
The Aemricans stand and will fight
Until the last man is cut down,
For liberty and freedom, but not re-
nown;
Ho! then, do hear Alright
That those Americans will fight.
"Mien GOtt," those youthful wards,
Will nit stand before my guards;
l will surround with band of steel,
The city's fortress and make them
yield,
10 our "kultur" and strategy,
AS against their blind fallacy.
And when the city capituates
10 enter we will not hesitate;
My guards | shall not restrain,
And they will not refrain,
To accept what the "Gotts" have de
creed;
For to them the danes shall be freed
10 enjoy what the "Gotts" have given
To man from the garden, Eden driven
For unto the conqueror the spoils,
BE given for my sacrifice and tolls.
For it is decreed "Gott's divine will"
Thru me, my army shall fulfill
From the beginning, that the Kaise,
Shall rule, and the world made wiser;
"BetwiXt the cup and the vain lip"
The would-be conqueror did not dream
His guards would be downcd in the
stream,
By the "doughboys" he held in con-
tempt,
For such feat they dared not at
tempt,
All, how sad the ending of his dream
To retreat from scissors and Rheims,
And Chateau-Thiery he failed to hold,
Captured by the "doughboys" SO bold,
Their advance the Prince could not
resist,
Attic reserves were brought to assist;
Then onward, the doughboys charge;
They force the Marine without bridge
or barge;
And they make stepping stones
VI the guards dead bodies and broken
bones.
Back to the city of en-Tardeneo.s,
The Prince hoped to stop the dough-
boys;
But the town was made hot as hell
By American bullets and bursting
shell.
on Colt" is there no place of refuge
Where l can hide from this deuge,
OF shot and shell and baonet thrust;
Have | not in the supreme trust.
Then back to the hills of the Aasne,
Where thye "doughbos" will not deign
To pursue our bleeding bodies and
feet,
In this our most disastrous defeat.
Jas. p. Whitman, Horsepene, Va.
"Ovcr There" July 10, 1918.
Dearest Mother:
have arrived safely in France and
'am real well, and | hope you are the
same. Listen, this is sure a pretty
country, and | like it fine The peo-
pie here sure lie fixed to have plenty
to eat. i never saw as many gar
dens, and as much to eat | am In a
very pretty place now. wish you.
could see France. do not want you
to be uneasy about me, for | will be
all o. k, and will write you real of
ten. l am real anxious to hear from
you, but | guess it will be sometime
before l will get letter from home.
Have you heard from Grah,,m since
he went to comp
Listen, the training he will get
thara will ho ornn1 l. Il.
think it will not. | sure have seen
things l never dreamed of ever see
ing and have enjoyed the trip just
fine and am looking ahead to see
more of France real soon. l will
close for this time. Give my best re-
CARDS to all.
Your loving son, JOE.
From j. D. Denny, Co. C, 28th Engi-
neers, A. E. F., to Mrs. j. d. Den
ny, Elk Garden, Va.
French Girls Don't Look Good to
penny" Davis.
The following letter has been re-
ceived in this office from Hugh C. Da-
Wis:
Hello, Pal: How are you by this
time. / am well and hoping that these
few lines will find you the same. I re-
CelNeu your IeIIcr Tile OCner day and
was sure glad to hear from you.
wrote you about three weeks ago. ]
guess you have received it before
now. / have tried to write to all OF
my friends back home since / have
been in France, especially to ore and
you know who that is. l guess. Those
pictures you sent me are real good
ones. | am going to try and take care
of them and bring them back with
me. Every time l began to think OF
home / get those pictures out anc
take good look at them. They ar.
the only things that can remembc,
home by. There ISM any place over
here that looks anything like the
States to me.
didn't think that when 1 left HON,
that would be over here as soon a.
l have, but | am over here There
are lots of pretty French girls ovcl
here, but they don't look rs good t.