Aline Mary Capp, item 81

• February 13, 2017 11:47:35 Stefania Biron

  T. F. N. S. Lincoln.
  

  A cathedral city of ancient fame
  

  To be truthful, Lincoln is its name,
  

  Noted for the imp, with grinning face,
  

  That years ago, did haunt the place.
  

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  A hospital now, the city holds
  

  A thousand beds 'tis said it enfolds,
  

  In many huts, in a sea of mud,
  

  Like a lot of arks, at the fall of a flood.
  

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  English, Belgian, Flemish & French,
  

  Men who've experienced life in a trench.
  

  Some sick, some wounded in body or mind
  

  In coming to Lincoln fresh health hope to find.
  

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  Here are Drs or nurses & orderlys sho
  

  Of varied experience & charachter too
  

  Here come to make one in this hospital town.
  

  They all wear the cross but are minus the crown.
  

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  The work goes on by night & by day
  

  The guards prowl round in a dreamy way,
  

  To answer the whistles that shreck loud for aid,
  

  and see lights all out if a Zeppelin ...
  

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