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Show WHAT DO YOUR BILLIONS WEIGH? In World War I a certain man asked: "What does a billion dollars weigh?" Someone answered him as follows: Oh mothers with the lonely hearts, queens of our goodly land, I'll tell you what these billions weigh, and you will understand ! ""Far out upoti the battlefields where fires poison, hell, - -Rain out their awful summons, there my sweet boy hero fell; ' And seeking in the murky gloom to kiss away his breath In mercy came God's messenger, the angel we call death. And bending gently o'er him, in sleet and rain and mud, She took from out his dear dead heart the last, last drop of blood, And placed that drop upon the scales and watched the balance .fall, For that one drop from my boy's heart, God knows, outweighed it all! And if my darling gave his blood, my sweetheart dead and cold, Can you for whom he fought and died, can you withhold your gold? |
