Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — That Little Boy and I. [ARTICLE]

That Little Boy and I.

Looking upward at the mirage In the filmy cloudland low, Playing marbles in the sunset, Is a boy I used to know; In a group of lads just gathered, There reflected in the skies, With the golden glow of childhood Shining in his happy eyes.

And he shoots with such precision, As he pockets all the pile. And tnb marbles jingle gayly As he shakes them with a smile, “Can’t go home because I’m winner,” Flings he jauntily at me; I smile back with comprehension At the boy that once was me. Oh! lost joys of little boy-time, Mocking me with glad surprise, As I gage in solemn wonder, Rainbow mist through weeping •eyes, Watching with a numbing heartcache, Playing there in boyish glee, Through the glow of golden sunset, A little boy that once was me.

Take my milions, little comrade, Little boy that once was me, Fling them to the losers, winner, Fling them all, just once to be Trudging home again to mother, Back to her, just you and I, Then to feel her arms embracing. Drawn there by the evehing sky. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.