SERVICE STAR

The Gold Star

Little golden service star,

How I wonder who you are.

Does a sweetheart, or a wife,

Love you, little star of "Life?"

Or a mother, proud but sad,

Who gave all, her only lad?

When I first beheld you there

You were blue, born with a prayer.

Golden star and star of blue—

With one soul God gave to you—

Do you know how proud we are

Of the golden service star?

—Beth Nichols.