I copied it and signed my name, but, all the same,
It didn’t seem to please her, for she wrote in her reply
She’d read it several times and it didn’t sound like I
Was sayin’ exactly what I meant, and was I feelin’ good;
I’m kind of glad she took it so—in fact, I hoped she would.
Mel Ryder, Sgt. Major, Inf.
SOLDIER SMILES
You may talk of kings and princes,
And the glory of their show;
You may sing of knights and ladies