StoryTitle("caps", "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(153, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the prison-cell I sit, thinking, mother dear, of you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And our bright and happy home so far away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the tears they fill my eyes, spite of all that I can do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though I try to cheer my comrades and be gay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", " ", SmallCapsText("chorus")) ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Cheer up, comrades, they will come;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the air again", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of the freeland in our beloved home.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the battle-front we stood when their fiercest charge they made,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And they swept us off a hundred men or more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But before we reached their lines they were beaten back dismayed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we heard the cry of vict'ry o'er and o'er.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So within the prison-cell we are waiting for the day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That shall some to open wide the iron door;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the hollow eye grows bright, and the poor heart almost gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As we think of seeing home and friends once more.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("—George F. Root")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>