Our men are strong and brave in all the ranks.

All Hail America! Our hope and pride.

God bless our home and now with us abide.

WAITING

The waiting minutes

Tick on but never ending

To eternity.

The years do not wait.

So stealthily do they move,

Like deep swift water.

THAT HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP

Remembering friends of the not long ago,

Their laughter a gay bubbling song.

The whispering of secrets, the rapture of show.

The mounting of spirits lit the peak aglow

And lifted the heart up along

The forgetting of wrong in a moment of joy,

Quite erased the hurt and the scar,

With music of kindness and naught to annoy,

And gold of the friendship refusing alloy.

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