"Soldier's Ode to Ascension"

I found this among my father's papers.  It is signed by Linn Garibaldi and notes that it is limited to 100 copies. (My father's is numbered 13.)

Soldier's Ode to Ascension©

by

Linn D. Garibaldi

Major, Infantry

U.S. Army

30 August, 1943

(All rights reserved)

A bit of land amid clouds of dust

An ocean surrounds this volcanic crust

But many flies, and fleas, and centipedes,
Wind, sand, and sunny days,

Nights of stars and moontlit bays;

A fit place to see the Southern Cross,

But not to linger lest you be lost;

This freak of nature devoid of thunder

Is God's Ascension--a Day of wonder!