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Title: "As you were,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: (Bangs, John Kendrick) 1888- ed (Bangs, John Kendrick), 1862-1922, ed
Subjects: United States. War dept. Purchase, storage and traffic division. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eap oak desks, those files arrayed,Where papers heave in many a towering heap,Each in forgotten place forever laid,The office circulars and orders sleep. To them no more young officers shall turn,Or busy secretaries give them care,No messengers their special rush will spurn,And cause the chiefs to fume and softly swear. Far from the maddening clerks ignoble hands,Their mimeographed pages learned to stray,Where loosely held in clips and rubber bands,They sleep the endless hours tucked safe away. Let not ambition mock their humble style,Their homely words and sentences obscure,Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smileTheir composition and their English poor. Full many a sheet of purest thought serene,The dark unfathomed desk recesses bear.Full many a page is born to blush unseen,And waste its wisdom in a file case there. No farther seek their merits to discloseNor draw those papers from their dead abode,There they abide in unthought-of repose,Sweet, calm, eternal sleep on them bestowed.
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The Troubles of a War Worker Social Events 167 THE QUARTERMASTERS DREAMBy F. E. Coyne, Captain, Q. M. C. The Camp Quartermaster, with duties far vaster Than any K. O. in the Camp,Retired to his tent on a restful sleep bent; The night was quite dreary and damp. He thought of the morrow, and much to his sorrow Remembered a duty undone;Ten carloads of Hay, with demurrage to pay, Unloading had not yet begun. An interrogation on Truck Transportation, By telegraph coming in late,Unanswered telegrams bringing him cuss and damns, The Q. M. G.s Office wont wait. He rolled and he tumbled, he groaned and he mumbled, He cursed when the bugler blew taps,At midnight he wept then he finally slept, With his brain on the verge of collapse. His sleep was a nightmare (that kind causing white hair) As a hodge-podge of visions arose;Subsistence Form Numbers, Beef Fresh, and Cucumbers, And Property, price lists of clothes. Tents, pyramidal, Shoes quite damnable, Flour issue, and Cheese Full-cream,Butter Sa

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