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Show THE KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS. The patriotism nnd pathos of tills poem will t find n response in many a Carbon county home. where the boy has answered the call and Is "chanRed by the Flag to n man." The essential ., wholcsomencssnnd truth of the verses give them - ' ( n deep and lasting significance. ' The Kid has gone to the Colors . And we don't know what to say; The Kid wc have loved and cuddled Stepped out for the Flag today. Wc thought him n child, a baby. With never a care at all; Hut hh country called him a man-size And the Kid has heard the call. !'! He paused to wntch the recruiting, " ' Where, fired by the fife nnd drum, . , He bowed his head to Old Glory i And thought that it whispered: "Come." fl , The Kid, not being a slacker, Stood forth with patriot-Joy To add his name to the roster And, (tod! we're proud of our boy! The Kid has gone to the Colors; It scents but a little while " Since he drilled n schoolloy army In tt truly martial stlc. Hut now he's a man, a soldier, ' I And wc lend him a listening car; I For his heart is a heart all loyal, Unscourgcd by the curse of fear. " . His dad, when he told him, shuddered, His mother Rod bless her! cried; Yet, blest with a mother-nature, She wept with u mothcr-prldc. Hut he whose old shoulders straightened Was granddad for memory ran To years when he, too, n youngster, Was changed by the Flag to a man! |