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Robert W Service - The Record
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Fearing that she might go one day
With some fine fellow of her choice,
I called her from her childish play,
And made a record of her voice.
And now that she is truly gone,
I hear it sweet and crystal clear
From out my wheezy gramophone:
            "I love you, Daddy dear."

Indeed it`s true she went away,
But Oh she went all, all alone;
Into the dark she went for aye,
Poor little mite! ere girlhood grown.
Ah that I could with her have gone!
But this is all I have to show -
A ghost voice on a gramophone:
            "Dear Dad, I love you so."

The saddest part of loss `tis said,
Is that time tempers our regret;
But that is treason to the dead -
I`ll not forget, I`ll not forget.
Sole souvenir of golden years,
`Twas best to break this disc in two,
And spare myself a spate of tears . . .
            But this I cannot do.

So I will play it every day,
And it will seem that she is near,
And once again I`ll hear her say:
I love you so, Oh Daddy dear."
And then her kiss - a stab of woe.
The record ends . . . I breathe a plea:
"Oh God, speed me to where I know
            Wee lass, you wait for me."
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