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Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.

Jerico

JERICO, Jerico,

Round and round the walls I go

Where they watch with scornful eyes,

Where the captained bastions rise;

Heel and toe, heel and toe,

Blithely round the walls I go.

Jerico, Jerico,

Round and round the walls I go …

All the golden ones of earth

Regal in their lordly mirth …

Heel and toe, heel and toe,

Round and round the walls I go.

Jerico, Jerico,

Blithely round the walls I go,

With a broken sword in hand

Where the mighty bastions stand;

Heel and toe, heel and toe,

Hear my silly bugle blow.

Heel and toe, heel and toe,

Round the walls of Jerico …

Past the haughty golden gate

Where the emperor in state

Smiles to see the ragged show,

Round and round the towers go.

Jerico, Jerico,

Round and round and round I go …

All their sworded bodies must

Lie low in their tower’s dust …

Heel and toe, heel and toe,

Blithely round the walls I go.

Heel and toe, heel and toe,—

I will blow a thunder note

From my brazen bugle’s throat

Till the sand and thistle know

The leveled walls of Jerico,

Jerico, Jerico, Jerico.…