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Show THE SOLDIER BOY. The man who wears the shoulder straps and has his sword in hand, Vho proudly strides along In front, looks ! pood and brave and grand; I Rut n lurching in th ranks somewhere j'jst where I cannot set1 With his gun upon his shoulder, is the soldier boy for me. I The man who wears the shoulder straps is handsome, brave and true ; But there are other handsome boys, and other brave ones, too! , When there are hnish is that must be won. while bullets fill the air. 'Tis not the officer alone who braves the dangers there. i The man who wears the shoulder straps is cheered along the way. And public honor dulls his dread cf falling fall-ing in the fray; ! But. there behind him in the ranks, and mrivine like a part Of some ma rh!ne. is many a man with I just a?, brave a heart. ! The man who we.irs the shoulder straps I deserves the p 'ji-'s pra;?: j t honor and appl'iud him for the splendid I part he p'.r.ys : Rut. brick ih-rc in ihe ranks somewhere, I pTrtnt-h'-ar-ed. -;-. !j j.e Prepa r-d ir rV, ,-( nd r.-rvfl to (hire the fiOldier boy for 'TT-. 1 1'-nrv Hnwland. |