Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Recruit" (1920)
Step like your soldier-daddy,
The world is yours for taking,
Life, what you will for making;
Dare boldly, be no slacker,
Black heroes are your backer,
And all your mother's dreaming
Awaits your full redeeming!
Right shoulder arms, my laddie,
Step like your soldier-daddy.
Published in The Brownies' Book, January 1920