Bonds: In Memoriam

Written Especially for the Writers' War Board, War Loan Drive, by Langston Hughes 
(For ANP)

Eddie and Charlie and Jack and Ted
And Harry and Arthur and Ken 
     Have all gone down
     Where heroes are found
In the land of the lost fighting men.

Eddie and Charlie and Ted and Ken 
And Harry and Arthur and Jack 
     All fought well
     Through a living hell
To a land where there's no coming back.

But Eddie and Charlie and Ted and Ken 
And all the men who are gone
     Still look to you
     To see it through—
The least you can do is buy a Bond.

The least you can do is do your job well— 
They fought that your future'd be sunny. 
     These men who gave all
     That our cause might not fall 
Only ask that you lend your money.