Pappy's Place

...And spaceboy I've missed youSpinning round my headAnd any way you choose meYou'll break instead...
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And smoothed away from the sunny brow the treasure of golden hair.Why, mother's eyes are blue, my sweet, and grandpa's hair is gray And the love we bear our darling child grows stronger every day. And one of them said he had fought for the blue, the other had fought for the gray.The one of the blue had lost a leg and the other had but one arm. Each asking God to speed the time uniting the blue and the gray.Then the mother thought of other days, two stalwart boys from her riven. And had gone to the land where gray and blue merge in tints of celestial light.And she answered her darling with golden hair, while her heart was sorely wrung.
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