Page:Fifes and Drums, Poems of America at War, Vigilantes, 1917.djvu/131

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FIFES AND DRUMS
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If you didn't raise your boy to be a soldier,
    If you didn't raise your boy to be a shirk,
Here's a job for head and hand—send him out to till the land;
    What's the matter with a farmer's work?

Amelia Josephine Burr.