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.o litheuse.thisiikiimgan*tosttec.I1H-k»8tfitBUY w.s.a-WEST VIRGINIA.The following is a copy of. a poem written by Private James O. Farley, whose Heath in the cause of h i.s conn trywe eh ron id pH last week, svitli the re-rjuest from liig mother that. yro. publish same: , .To the Raleigh Herahl, Beck lev. W. Vh.;Will you “please give space in your paper fen* a few lines from my son, Private -lames Oi Farley, who recently f died 'May on the hattle field, *in France: I received the following _just a short time before his death:. MRS. W. J. PARLEY.;\\puTUIDa;bBS1Reltcms-bo*purlch.binthetheits.tooneck-ieal.5(1,es.\9RMtrMMlelisitjTo my home in'‘West Virginia.. infa,,! Though T am a soldier serving my conn* mtr?. i»«Racli nay mv thoughts often go back to el my home, in West Virginia, I InTo where the birds sing sweetly on tho.pl banks of the rill ^ k:That turns the wheel of the old village cc mill. ITo where my Father and Mother and Sisters all stay At my old cottage home in West Virginia. *To where the harvests arc ripened each until in ii that passes by under the sun 1 hat- shines down from up in the sky.To where I uni thinking each day after day of niy friends in West Virginia,To where Father and Mother arc waiting patiently1 for their hoys’ return form over the sea,To where pine trees grow lonely in that laud fur nway in the.little mountain State of West Virginia.To where the blue birds sing sweetly from the tops of the trees and the meadows are blessed with the songs of the* bees.May God be with me through war and fray that I may return to West Virginia.Written by J nines O. Far ley. H. L.Co. 28. Inf. A. K. F. via New York. BUY W. S.S.—•—•S(lllInvMr.fcifc-tndirn*0.theinourof,50,NOTES OF INTERESTvnA A/STADVn OTAPT1?MlWudiKGoiHalt;bUltilS.ex\\\
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Raleigh Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1918
Page 7
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