Little Boy Blue.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 March 1914, Page 4

Little Boy Blue.

"'l'lic little toy (lop: is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands, And the little toy .soldier is ivd with rust, And his musket moulds in his luiuds. 'Time was when the little toy do" , was new. And the soldier was pass in.'.' fair, And that was the lime when mir Lit lie Boy Bine Kissed ilieiii ;l iid put them there. " 'Xow, don't you »'o till ] conic. v lie said. 'And don't you niake any noise ." So toddling o(V lo l,is triindle-hed. He dreum! of (lie preHy [:i V s. "And as he \ras dreaming an anyel soiiy Awakened our Liltle 15< )V Blue. Oh, the years are many, the years arc lo)i!> - , U"l (he little fny friends are tiMie. "A.ve. faithful i,, Ljill,. ]> nv |;.| (|| , they stand, Ka(-h in the same old place. Awaiting the ioiw.h o|' ;l jjhi,. hand, Tlip smile of a IRlle face. "And they wonder, as wail m<,. Ihese h)i,i>- \ears f|in>ii"-h [n the dust of lhai )][,],, \\ li:il has heconie of „„,. LiHle Boy Blue RIW 1,,, kissed then, and ~,,1 j them there." ' ~V<n»vn(> Vivhl.