Song for Three Soldiers (1940)
Stephen Vincent Benét
Oh, where are you coming from, soldier, fine soldier,
In your dandy new uniform, all spick and span,
With your helmeted head and the gun on your shoulder,
Where are you coming from, gallant young man?
I come from the war that was yesterday’s trouble,
I come with the bullet still blunt in my breast;
Though long was the battle and bitter the struggle,
Yet I fought with the bravest, I fought with the best.
Benét, Stephen Vincent. "Song of Three Soldiers." Middle School Poetry 180. Tom Truimph, 10 Apr. 2011. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. .