StoryTitle("caps", "The Song of the Camps")?>
PoemStart()?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far away in the piny woods,", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the dews fall heavy and damp,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A soldier sat by the smouldering fire", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sang the song of the camp.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"It is not to be weary and worn,", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is not to feel hunger and thirst,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is not the forced march, nor the terrible fight,", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That seems to the soldier the worst;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"But to sit through the comfortless hours,—", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The lonely, dull hours that will come—", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his head in his hands, and his eyes on the fire,", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And his thoughts on visions of home;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"To wonder how fares it with those", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who mingled so late with his life,—", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is it well with my little children three?", "")?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is it well with my sickly wife?", "")?>
PoemAttribution("85", "-J. R. M.")?>
PoemEnd()?>