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TO THE BRAVEST.
["What were your duties as naval aid?"
Commander Key hesitated, reddened and
answered: "They were largely social. I
appeared in uniform at all social functions.
-News Item.]
Have you ever looked and wondered at
those uniforms of gold,
At the bullion and the gilt,
And the gem-encrusted hilt,
At the tassels and aigrettes
And the fringe and epaulettes?
And have you ever wondered at the func-
tion they perform?
At all the social functions I appeared in
uniform!"
Before you is a ballroom that is crowded
with the fair.
Glances shoot at every heart,
Aimed with most unerring art;
All the men are chilled with fright,
Try to steal away from sight.
But the ladies quake and tremble as appears
a martial form-
"At all the social functions I appeared in
uniform!"
We see a state reception to the foreign
attachés,
Here is one with feathered crest,
Here is one with medalled breast,
Here's another: gold and green-
Bravest warriors ever seen.
To this foreign fighting standard have we
nothing to conform?
"At all the social functions I appeared in
uniform!"
If you think that it's a pudding you'd be
wise to think again;
Think of social pits and snares,
Etiquette and splitting hairs,
Dowagers who wish to dance,
Mammas with a haughty glance.
"Who was it," History remarked, "that
stood the fiercest storm?
It was Key, the great Commander, who
appeared in uniform!"
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This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.
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