Page:Fifes and Drums, Poems of America at War, Vigilantes, 1917.djvu/132

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CONCERNING PLANTING

Friend Kipling wrote some lines long since that ended "Pay, Pay, Pay!"
And he helped to clean up Africa. That war was children's play
With this that has to sift the sea, that's playing hide and seek
And prisoners' base with submarines that scuttle life. Last week
I heard a pure-food specialist stand up and start his chant
With "The way to beat Berlin is just to 'Plant, Plant, Plant!'"

They say all nature's short of crops this year and next may be.

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