<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Watchin' Out For Subs</h1><p class="byline">U. A. L.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> From Bert Leston Taylor's column, "A Line o' Type or Two,"<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">in The Chicago Tribune</span></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Bosun's whistle piping, "Starboard watch is on" </p><p class="line">Sleepy army officer, waked at crack o' dawn; </p><p class="line">In the forward crow's nest, watchin' out for subs; </p><p class="line">If they show a peeper, shoot the bloomin' tubs.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Ocean black and shiny, silly little moon; </p><p class="line">Transports fore and aft of us--daylight comin' soon; </p><p class="line">Sleeping troopers sprawling on the deck below; </p><p class="line">Something in the water makes the spindrift glow.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">In the forward crow's nest--ah! the day is here! </p><p class="line">Transports and destroyers looming far and near. </p><p class="line">Ours the great adventure--gone is old romance</p><p class="line">Wake, ye new Crusaders! Look!--the shores of France!</p></div></body></html> · Great War