On The Presentation Of An American Banner To Camp Rochambeau By The Marquise De Rochambeau At Tours, France, June 1, 1918 Here Is A Picture I Carry Away On Memory'S Wall. A Green June Day, A Golden Sun In An Amethyst Sky, And A Beautiful Banner Floating As High As The Lofty Spires Of The City Of Tours, And A Slender Marquise, With A Face As Pure As A Sculptured Saint: While Staunch And True In New-World Khaki And Old-World Blue, Wearing Their Medals With Modest Pride, Her Stalwart Bodyguard Stand At Her Side. Simple The Picture; But Much It May Mean To One Who Reads Into And Under The Scene, For There, In That Opulent Hour And Weather, Two Great Republics Came Closer Together; A Little Nearer Came Land To Land Through The Magical Touch Of A Woman'S Hand. And Once Again As In Long Ago The Grand Old Name Of De Rochambeau Shines Forth Like A Star, For Our World To See - Our Land Of The Brave, And Our Home Of The Free.