The Martian, journal publié par les soldats américains de l'Hôpital de Mars-sur-Allier , item 27

• November 24, 2017 16:50:13 Thomas A. Lingner

  THE MARTIAN
  

  Hommes - 36-40

  Chevaux - 8
  

  Vol. 1 -- No. 35.  SUNDAY, April 20, 1919.   Price: 30 centimes.
  

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  EASTER IN FRANCE
  

  It is today that we claim as ours!
  

  Religion? Yes, a goodly part of the day will fill
  

  And by a solemn recognition find
  

  Perhaps some great and deeper meaning in the name.
  

  But other hours will come when other thoughts
  

  Must steal away e'en such as these, -
  

  And they will be of all the little things
  

  Which other Easters brought to you and me
  

  And we had laughed and idly failed to see.
  

  
  

  A letter was not much in other years
  

  That told of flowers by a garden wall
  

  Or of the neighbor's dog that raced and circled wide,
  

  Destroying every tender, growing plant
  

  In some wild revelry of Spring:
  

  Or of the shadows lengthening on the lawn
  

  At just this time on other Easter afternoons
  

  When you had waved and called for Her to ride
  

  In the purring, four-wheeled heaven at your side:
  

  
  

  So here in France we wait, -
  

  And in the recollections of the past
  

  We smile in contemplation of the Easters still to come
  

  Amd the scenes of home and all they mean.
  

  J.C.S.
  

  
  

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