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This candle was lit by
Bo with love

With Trumpet
and Drum
by
Eugene Field
With
big tin trumpet and little red drum,
Marching like soldiers, the children come!
It 's this way and that way they circle and
file---
My! but that music of theirs is fine!
This way and that way, and after a while
They march straight into this heart of
mine!
A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb
To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that
drum!
Come on, little people, from
cot and from hall---
This heart it hath welcome and room for you all!
It will sing you its songs and warm you with
love,
As your
dear little arms with my arms intertwine;
It will rock you away to the dreamland
above---
Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of
mine,
And jollier still is it bound to become
When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red
drum!
So come; though I see not
his dear little face
And hear not his voice in this jubilant
place,
I know he were happy to bid me enshrine
His memory deep in my heart with your
play---
Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine
Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day!
And my heart it is lonely---so, little folk,
come,
March in and make merry with trumpet and drum!













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