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Badges Of The Blue

Badges of the blue

Weep so endlessly,

For their brothers in blue

Who have died so needlessly.

So many sons of mothers,

And fathers of sons,

Gone before their lives

Had even begun.

Through endless summer days,

And numbered winter years,

Nothing will halt

The forgotten badges’ tears.

Poem copyrighted © 2004 by Lydia Warner Miller

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