Somebody’s waiting, and watching for him,

Yearning to hold him again to her heart,

And there he lies—with his blue eyes dim,

And his smiling, child-like lips apart!

Tenderly bury the fair young dead,

Pausing to drop o’er his grave a tear;

Carve on the wooden slab at his head,

“‘Somebody’s darling’ is lying here!”

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CHAPTER IV
THEIR PLUCK