Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — THERE IS ONE BOY [ARTICLE]

THERE IS ONE BOY

There is one boy, somewhere in France today, One little boy I held with sheltering arm • Against my heart, safe from all fear and harm, e One little boy I guided in his play, And urged and jpralsed in work. In France today There is one boy. There is one boy, somewhere today will ... . fall, One boy, who, falling, will cry out my name, - And I, who have the first, the mother’s claim, Must wait, while others hush his anguished call. The wounded tear my heart, but most of all There is one boy. There Is one boy* on some red field, tonight Lies still; one little boy whose race * is run. Whose faith has triumphed and whose goal is won. And be his cause the unworthy or the right, I thank thee, oh, my God, that in thy sight There is one boy. —Elizabeth M. Walker, in Boston Transcript.