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The Log Vol. 4 No. 09

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  • wcu_canton-138.jp2
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  • £lir 2uu %s (Smtr to (Ebr (Eolnra. The Kid has gone to the colors And we don't know what to say; The Kid we have loved and cuddled Stepped out for the flag today. We thought him a child, a baby. With never a care at all. But his country called him man-size And the Kid has heard the call. He paused to watch the recruiting, Where, fired by the file and drum. He bowed his head to Old Glory And thought that it whispered; "Come!" Tne Kid, not being a slacker, Stood forth wit!) patriot-joy To add his name to the roster— And God, we're proud of the boy! The Kid has gone to the Colors; It seems but a little while Since he drilled a schoolboy army In a truly martial style. But now he's a man, a soldier, And we lend him listening ear, For his heart is a heart all loyal, Unscourged by the curse of fear. 11 is dad, when he told him, shuddertd; His mother—God bless her!—cried; Yet, blest with a mother nature, She wept with a mother-pride. But he whose old shoulders straightened, Was Grandad -for memory ran To years when he, too, a youngster, Was changed by the Flag to a man I By W. M. Herschell.'in The Indianapolis News. i
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