THE LITTLE TOY SOLIDER.

Monday again. We are edging into the latter days of January. Can it be that already a month in our New Year has slipped past? I now stand at the count down of day Eleven before my birthday. The day I slip into being very elderly. As I dance around the house singing my silly songs. I remind myself I need to start acting more serious. Wheeze and cough a little as I complain about the pains in my back. NOT!

I always have many random thoughts racing around in my head. But the last few days I have been thinking about growing up with a Mother who loved the written word. Read to us as children. She kept books in the house and loved poetry. This poem she use too recite when I was young. In doing a search on Google, my old friend, I came across a a remark about this poem. Calling it one of the saddest poems ever written. So for my Momma who have loved to have read this one more time. "Little Boy Blue," By Eugene Field.


Little Boy Blue

The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket molds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new
And the soldier was passing fair,
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.

"Now, don't you go till I come," he said,
"And don't you make any noise!"
So toddling off to his trundle-bed
He dreamed of the pretty toys.
And as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue,—
Oh, the years are many, the years are long,
But the little toy friends are true.

Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand,
Each in the same old place,
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face.
And they wonder, as waiting these long years through,
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue
Since he kissed them and put them there

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Eugene Field
Born September 2, 1850(1850-09-02)
St. Louis, Missouri
Died November 4, 1895(1895-11-04) (aged 45)
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation American writer
Children Eugene Field, Jr.
Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.