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Show And wear it with spirit, both loyal and bold; Fraternally welcome each one who displays dis-plays It, With love In our hearts for the comrades com-rades of old. Each day musters out whole battalions of wearers, And soon will be missed the small '.olten so dear; Yet millions will learn what this emblem betokens, The Littlo Bronze Button that tells of "no tear." The Little Button How dear to the heart ot each gray-bearded gray-bearded soldier Are the thoughts of the days when he once wore the Blue; tWhen memory recalls each trial and danftcr, - And scenes ot the past J are brought back to his view, i Though long since dlscard-J dlscard-J tug his arms and equipment. $W' There's one thing a vet- ViifC eran most surely will r note; The first thing he sees on 5! the form ot a comrndo yZ ft Is the little Bronze liut- C-Vj' ton he wears on his coat" &iwiL CHORUS Wy" Tne 111 t,e r,rown rtu'tnn. 'Wii 'r,,e s-'";rpi1 l!ro"ZO Hull nn, .f The Grand Army ISutton, P He wears on his coat. "How much did It cost?" said a man to a soldier, "Tbnt lUtlo flat button you wear on ynur coat?" "Ten cents In good money." he answered the stranger. "And four years of hard marching, and lighting to hoot. "The wealth of the world cannot purchase this emblem, "Kxcepi tlia Hie buyer had once worn the I'.lue; "And It proves to mankind tho full worth of a hero "A man to his home and his country was true." j Then lei us r proud of the Liltle tlrcW.ii LiulWM |