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TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT by WILLIAM A. PHELON

First Line: NO MORE HE WALKS ACROSS THE FIELD
Last Line: WHEN HE COMES HOME AGAIN!
Subject(s): ALEXANDER, GROVER CLEVELAND (1887-1950); ATHLETES; BASEBALL; SOLDIERS; SPORTS; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;

(@3Grover Alexander has arrived safely in France.@1—Cabled Item.)

NO MORE he walks across the field,
Amid a roaring cheer—
No more he poses on the slab,
The star of yesteryear—
No other fills the place he held—
No other "knows just how—"
The crowds in stand and bleacher ask,
"Where's Alexander now?"

He's standing in a greater field,
To play a grander game—
He gives no thought to cheering crowds,
Or glittering base ball fame—
He's only one among his pals,
The grim-faced, brown-clad men—
But what a crash of noise there'll be,
When he comes home again!



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