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The Old Soldier

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There came an Old Soldier to my door,     Asked a crust, and asked no more;     The wars had thinned him very bare,     Fighting and marching everywhere,     With a Fol rol dol rol di do.     With nose stuck out, and cheek sunk in,     A bristling beard upon his chin -     Powder and bullets and wounds and drums     Had come to that Soldier as suchlike comes -     With a Fol rol dol rol di do.     'Twas sweet and fresh with buds of May,     Flowers springing from every spray;     And when he had supped the Old Soldier trolled     The song of youth that never grows old,     Called Fol rol dol rol di do.     Most of him rags, and all of him lean,     And the belt round his belly drawn tightsome in     He lifted his peaked old grizzled head,     And these were the very same words he said-     A Fol-rol-dol-rol-di-do.

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