{"id":222,"date":"2021-06-17T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&p=222"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:01:03","slug":"last-words-of-the-dying-recruit","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/last-words-of-the-dying-recruit\/","title":{"raw":"Last Words of the Dying Recruit","rendered":"Last Words of the Dying Recruit"},"content":{"raw":"WHERE'S you' tender han', mumma,\r\nDat would fingle up me jaw\r\nWhen de fever burned so deep,\r\nAn' A couldn' get no sleep?\r\n\r\nWhere's de voice me love' to hear\r\nWhisp'rin' sweetest words o' cheer?\u2014\r\nVoice dat taught me A B C\r\nAs me leaned 'pon mumma's knee.\r\n\r\nLook de 'panish-needle grass\r\nGrowin' by de gully pass!\r\nIs dat fe me ducky hen\r\nCacklin' roun'-a rabbit pen?\r\n\r\nHea' de John-t'whits in-a glee\r\nSingin' in de mammee tree!\r\nListen, comin' up de dale\r\nChirpin's o' de nightingale!\r\n\r\nAll de chune dem die away:\u2014\r\nDo you see de shinin' ray\r\nOn da' tiny buttercup ?\r\n'Tis de sun a-comin' up.\r\n\r\nNow's full time fe me to wake,\r\n'Causen we ha' bread fe bake;\r\nGit up, Sam, you lazy wretch,\r\nFor de beas' dem fe go ketch:\r\n\r\nEf[footnote]If you allow the sun to get hot, grass-lice (small ticks) will surely \"make you know\" (punish you),[\/footnote] you 'low de sun fe grow,\r\nGrass-lice wi' sure mek you know;\r\nS'arch up to de ole-groun' side,\r\nFor de jack wi' 'tan' deh hide.\r\n\r\nMumma, me wan' go a school,\r\nTe-day we gwin' play torn-fool :\r\nQuick! Gi'e me my book an' slate,\r\nFor I doana want fe late.\r\n\r\nSister, wha' de doctor t'ink?\r\nSay mumma a lower sink?\r\nLard! ef she gwin' go lef we,\r\nWha' de use o' life fe me?\r\n\r\nSister, sister, a no true,\r\nMumma caan' dis dead 'way so;\r\nSister, sister, leave me 'lone,\r\nMe won' believe dat she gone.\r\n\r\nAh! no fe her own ban' now\r\nKestin' on me fevered brow?\r\nMumma, lay me 'pon you' breas',\r\nMek me get a drop o' res'.\r\n\r\nMumma! a whe' mumma deh?\r\nMumma! mumma gone away?\r\nGone, oh gone is eberyt'ing,\r\nBut de funny fancies cling.\r\n\r\nAye, t'enk God, me mumma come!\r\nMa, no lef me, tek me home;\r\nTek me from de awful strife\r\nOf dis miserable life.","rendered":"

WHERE’S you’ tender han’, mumma,
\nDat would fingle up me jaw
\nWhen de fever burned so deep,
\nAn’ A couldn’ get no sleep?<\/p>\n

Where’s de voice me love’ to hear
\nWhisp’rin’ sweetest words o’ cheer?\u2014
\nVoice dat taught me A B C
\nAs me leaned ‘pon mumma’s knee.<\/p>\n

Look de ‘panish-needle grass
\nGrowin’ by de gully pass!
\nIs dat fe me ducky hen
\nCacklin’ roun’-a rabbit pen?<\/p>\n

Hea’ de John-t’whits in-a glee
\nSingin’ in de mammee tree!
\nListen, comin’ up de dale
\nChirpin’s o’ de nightingale!<\/p>\n

All de chune dem die away:\u2014
\nDo you see de shinin’ ray
\nOn da’ tiny buttercup ?
\n‘Tis de sun a-comin’ up.<\/p>\n

Now’s full time fe me to wake,
\n‘Causen we ha’ bread fe bake;
\nGit up, Sam, you lazy wretch,
\nFor de beas’ dem fe go ketch:<\/p>\n

Ef[1]<\/sup><\/a> you ‘low de sun fe grow,
\nGrass-lice wi’ sure mek you know;
\nS’arch up to de ole-groun’ side,
\nFor de jack wi’ ‘tan’ deh hide.<\/p>\n

Mumma, me wan’ go a school,
\nTe-day we gwin’ play torn-fool :
\nQuick! Gi’e me my book an’ slate,
\nFor I doana want fe late.<\/p>\n

Sister, wha’ de doctor t’ink?
\nSay mumma a lower sink?
\nLard! ef she gwin’ go lef we,
\nWha’ de use o’ life fe me?<\/p>\n

Sister, sister, a no true,
\nMumma caan’ dis dead ‘way so;
\nSister, sister, leave me ‘lone,
\nMe won’ believe dat she gone.<\/p>\n

Ah! no fe her own ban’ now
\nKestin’ on me fevered brow?
\nMumma, lay me ‘pon you’ breas’,
\nMek me get a drop o’ res’.<\/p>\n

Mumma! a whe’ mumma deh?
\nMumma! mumma gone away?
\nGone, oh gone is eberyt’ing,
\nBut de funny fancies cling.<\/p>\n

Aye, t’enk God, me mumma come!
\nMa, no lef me, tek me home;
\nTek me from de awful strife
\nOf dis miserable life.<\/p>\n

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