English Nurses with Americans in France, item 33
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As I come back
Down the street flags adorning
Half seeing all the pomp for sight of you
Foretaste I'll know of gladsome day a-borning
For us, come out of night at last to morning
From the Long Trail that terminates for two.
"Oh but I will come back to you, my Mother!
Wounded? Why no!........... I will come back"!
Arthur McKeogh
Lt. Inf
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When Pvt. Mugrums Parlay Voos
I can count my francs an' santeems-
If I've got a basket near-
An' I speak a wicked "bon jour"
But the verbs are awful queer
An' I lose a lot o' pronouns
When I try to talk to you,
For your eyes are so bewitchin'
I forgot to parlay voo.
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In your pretty little garden
With the bench beside the wall
An' the sunshine on the asters
An' the purple phlox so tall,
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As I come back
Down the street flags adorning
Half seeing all the pomp for sight of you
Foretaste I'll know of gladsome day a-borning
For us, come out of night at last to morning
From the Long Trail that terminates for two.
"Oh but I will come back to you, my Mother!
Wounded? Why no!........... I will come back"!
Arthur McKeogh
Lt. Inf
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When
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As I come back
Down the street flags adorning
Half seeing all the pomp for sight of you
Foretaste I'll know of gladsome day a-borning
For us, come out of night at last to morning
From the Long Trail that terminates for two.
"Oh but I will come back to you, my Mother!
Wounded? Why no!........... I will come
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As I come back
Down the street flags adorning
Half seeing all the pomp for sight of you
Foretaste I'll know of gladsome day a-borning
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Bourges
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Story location Bourges
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- John Rex Coller
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