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  Remember through the hours of pain that he with all his brothers Is battling there to win again a happy world for mothers.

“You’ve heard a good deal of the telephone wires,” he said as we sat at our ease, And talked of the struggle that’s taking men’s lives in these terrible days o’er the seas, “But I’ve been through the thick of the thing and I know when a battle’s begun, It isn’t the phone you depend on for help. It’s the legs of a boy who can run.