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Show The Questioner. Hy Ouil Werner. 1 called tho boy to my knoo one day, And 1 tald: "You'ro just rntt four; Will you laugh in that enmo light-hearted light-hearted way When you'to turned. Bay, thirty moreY" V Then 1 tbougtb of a rnst I'd fain eras- -Mora clouded sklna than blue And I anxiously poerod lubla upturned up-turned foco For it poetnod to say : "Did you?" 1 touched my lips to hla tiny own And I mild to tho boy: "Heigh, oh! These lips aro as Bweet as tbo hay, now-mown; Will you kcop thorn itlwnyjs so?'' ' Thou book from tbeso yeuia camo u rakish song With u ribald jest or two And 1 gaz'ed tit tho child who knew no wrouc. And 1 thought ho naked: "Did you?" I looked in his ores, big, brawn and dear, And 1 orlod'.' "Oh, boy of trine 1 Will you keep them truo In tho nftcr-year? nftcr-year? Will you leave no heart to pine?" Thou out of tho past camo another's eyes of tear-dimmed bluo Did he know they wero not bio mother's moth-er's eyes? For ho nnswered me: "Did you?" Sarlbuor'e. |