Transcribed from the 1919 Gay and Hancock edition by DavidPrice,

HELLO, BOYS!

BY

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

LONDON

GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD.

1919

All rights reserved

p. ivN.B.—The only volumes ofmy Poems issues
with my approval in the British Empire are
published by Messrs. Gay & Hancock.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

p.vFORWARD

The greater part of these versesdealing with the war were written in France during my recentseven months’ sojourn there, and for the purpose of usingin entertainments given in camps and hospitals to thousands ofAmerican soldiers.

They were the result of coming into close contact with thesoldiers’ mind and heart, and were intentionally expressedin the simplest manner, without any consideration of methodsapproved by modern critics.  The fact that I have been askedto autograph scores of copies of many of these verses (and one ofthem to the extent of 350 copies) is more gratifying to me thanwould be the highest encomiums of the purely literary critic.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

London,
      October 1918.

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