And there's an answer:

JEANNOT'S ANSWER TO JEANNETTE

Cheer up, cheer up my own Jeannette tho' far away I go,
In all the changes you may see I'll be the same Jeannot
And if I win both fame and gold, ah! be not so unkind
To think that I could leave you in the home I leave behind;
There's not a lady in the land, and if she were a queen,
Could win my heart from you, Jeannette, so true as you have been;
They must have gallant warriors; chance hath cast the lot on me;
But mind you this—the soldier, love, shall no deserter be.

Why, ever since the world began, the surest road to fame
Has been the field, where men unknown might win themselves a name;
And well I know the brightest eyes have ever brighter shone;
When looking at some warrior bold return from battles won.
And you would put an end to deeds the ladies love so well,
And have no tales of valour left for history to tell;
The soldier's is a noble trade, Jeannette, then rail no more;
Were only kings allowed to fight, there'd be an end of war.

Source: Kenneth Goldstein Broadsides, University of Mississippi Libraries

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