Nature
Foot-Soldiers
From Child Verse (1900)
Nature
'Tis all the way to Toe-town,
Beyond the Knee-high hill,
That Baby has to travel down
To see the soldiers drill.
One, two, three, four, five, a-row--
A captain and his men--
And on the other side, you know,
Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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MLA
Tabb, John Banister. “Foot-Soldiers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/35/.
Chicago
Tabb, John Banister. “Foot-Soldiers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/35/.
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