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THE BALLAD of ENSIGN JOY
E. P. Dutton & Company
THE BALLAD of ENSIGN JOY
IS is the story of
````Ensign Joy
````And the obsolete
`````rank withal
````That I love for each gentle English
`````boy
````Who jumped to his country's
`````call.
`````deeds they've done,
````I would gazette them Second to
`````none
````Who faces a gun in Gaul!)
|IT is also the story of Ermyntrude
````A less appropriate name
````For the dearest prig and the
`````prettiest prude!
````But under it, all the same,
````The usual consanguineous squad
````Had made her an honest child
`````of God--
````And left her to play the game.
|IT was just when the grind of
`````the Special Reserves,
````Employed upon Coast Defence,
````Was getting on every Ensign's
`````nerves--
````Sick-keen to be drafted
`````hence--
````That they met and played tennis
`````and danced and sang,
````The lad with the laugh and the
`````schoolboy slang,
````The girl with the eyes intense.
|YET it wasn't for him that she
`````languished and sighed,
````But for all of our dear deemed
`````youth;
````And it wasn't for her, but her
`````sex, that he cried,
````If he could but have probed
`````the truth !
````Did she? She would none of his
`````hot young heart;
````As khaki escort he's tall and
`````smart,
````As lover a shade uncouth.
|HE went with his draft. She
`````returned to her craft.
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