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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Minstrel In France, by Harry Lauder This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Minstrel In France Author: Harry Lauder Release Date: February 21, 2004 [EBook #11211] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MINSTREL IN FRANCE *** Produced by Geoff Palmer A MINSTREL IN FRANCE BY HARRY LAUDER [ILLUSTRATION: _frontispiece_ Harry Lauder and his son, Captain John Lauder. (see Lauder01.jpg)] TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON CAPTAIN JOHN LAUDER First 8th, Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders Killed in France, December 28, 1916 Oh, there's sometimes I am lonely And I'm weary a' the day To see the face and clasp the hand Of him who is away. The only one God gave me, My one and only joy, My life and love were centered on My one and only boy. I saw him in his infant days Grow up from year to year, That he would some day be a man I never had a fear. His mother watched his every step, 'Twas our united joy To think that he might be one day My one and only boy. When war broke out he buckled on His sword, and said, "Good-bye. For I must do my duty, Dad; Tell Mother not to cry, Tell her that I'll come back again." What happiness and joy! But no, he died for Liberty, My one and only boy. The days are long, the nights are drear, The anguish breaks my heart, But oh! I'm proud my one and only Laddie played his part. For God knows best, His will be done, His grace does me employ. I do believe I'll meet again My one and only boy. by Harry Lauder LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Harry Lauder and His Son, Captain John Lauder "I did not stop at sending out my recruiting band. I went out myself" "'Carry On!' were the last words of my boy, Captain John Lauder, to his men, but he would mean them for me, too" "Bang! Went Sixpence" "Harry Lauder preserves the bonnet of his son, brought to him from where the lad fell, 'The memory of his boy, it is almost his religion.'--A tatter of plaid of the Black Watch. on a wire of a German entanglement barely suggests the hell the Scotch troops have gone through" "Captain John Lauder and Comrades Before the Trenches in France" "Make
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