Extra Verses
Various people over the years wrote unofficial or semi-unofficial extra verses to commemorate later battles and actions, for example, this verse commemorating the occupation of Iceland during World War II:
- Again in 1941, we sailed a north'ard course
- and found beneath the midnight sun, the Viking and the Norse.
- The Iceland girls were slim and fair, and fair the Iceland scenes,
- and the Army found in landing there, the United States Marines.
As the anticipated invasion of Japan neared, this portion of another verse was on a sign the Marines erected on Bougainville:
- "So when we reach the 'Isle of Japan'
- with our caps at a jaunty tilt,
- we'll enter the city of Tokyo
- on the roads the Seabees built."
Read more about this topic: Marines' Hymn
Famous quotes containing the words extra and/or verses:
“The extra worry began it—on the
Blue blue mountain—she never set foot
And then and there. Meanwhile the host
Mourned her quiet tenure. They all stayed chatting.
No one did much about eating.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)