MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENT #2:

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DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
TWO original poems kept by Harold but written by another soldier identified as "Edward C. Hagan 101st Regiment, Battery “E”.

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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION OF THESE POEMS:

1 page, typescript
(folded with wear, dirt, scribbles and stains)

"HYMN OF HATE.

My Tuesdays are meatless,,
My Wednesdays are wheatless,
I'm getting more eatless each day.
My home it is heatless,
My bed it is sheetless,
They're sent to the Y.M.C.A.
The bar-rooms are treatless,
The coffee is sweetless,
Each day I grow poorer and wiser.
My stockings are feetless,
My trousers are seatless,
My God – but I do hate the Kaiser."


"REGRETS.

Why didn’t I wait to be drafted
And led to the train with a band,
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O! Why, did I put up my hand?
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Why didn’t I wait to be cheered, For the drafted men got all the credit,
While I merely volunteered.
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Then off the trenches we hustled
To be trained for the next half a year.
And all in the hustle forgotten,
For I am only a volunteer."
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