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Show WE KAR'S'"-LAND KAR'S'"-LAND (Ily George Mattliew Adams) "No Man's Land I" No man's? Ah, whose, then? And why the tears, and pain and blood and death across "No Man's Land " .That. Barrow stretch though very long. That barren, barb-wired path. That place, where pneo tho birds were wont to sing, and children played, and farmers wrought. That ground once groon with growing, grain, and glad with happy homos, and patched with rugged trees, and calm with feeding stock. Now, "No Man's Land?," Oh, thrlco and thrico again, . 'tis falso that It Is "No Man's Land." Tls Soino Man's Land! j 'TIs his, 'tis hers, 'ti's yours' 'Tls his, whoso .heart .did bleed its latest' drop to gain It onco again. 'Tls hers whoso warmest tors had causo .to', molt to Elvo that ho might give. 'Tls! yours, whoso every effort, long and I lato, Is euro to .win it . b.icky For, j don't you see It is corao Man's, sorao Woman's, como Baby's Land. It novor can bo No Man'n Land. For aod, behind tho years, when Tlmo .was young, Ho gave It froo to all that each might toll and sloop and llvo his days in p,aco with lovo about. So, surely it must bo 1 Somo Man's Land. Somo Man's Land, worth praying for. Some Man's Land, worth working work-ing for. Somo Man's Land, worth fighting for. I I Some Man's Land worth dying fori ' i 1 |