Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lyric Leaves From a Khaki Notebook
It would be folly, indeed, to submit this little volume as an addition to the literature of poesy. There may be, however, an interest in the verses as sidelights on army experiences, from the stand point of a man in the ranks. If, at times, the feet are clumsy and the meter awkward, pray recall that one may not easily woo the Muse amid the distractions of a barrack, the wearisome journey of a troop train, the discomforts of a rain - soaked tent, the annoyances of a barn-loft billet, or the revelry of a roadside caf�. And under such con ditions, these verses were written. The first ten poems - if that term be not too. Dignified - were written in the States. The others were written in France, most of them among the Vosges moun tains, not far from the boundary beyond which so recently beckoned the lost Alsace.
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