AN ODE TO THE ENGINEERS.

We lay down all their roads

and cut down all their trees

and if the orders ever came

we'd ford the raging seas

whenever they want to sleep a while

we put them up a town

and we build the blasted bridges

so the infantry won't drown.

We get them over rivers

and cross the mountain streams

do everything but tuck them in

and wish them pleasant dreams

and when the goings really tough

and shells burst in their ears

a whole division's apt to pray

"GOD, SEND FOR ENGINEERS!".

http://www.cme-2003-gmc.org/herit/poetry/Ode_toEngineers.htm