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Two little boys in the open field just wishing they could play,
Looking across at a nearby fence in search of a better day,
But today they must carry water like tomorrow and yesterday,
Working all day in the hot, hot sun for very little pay.
They see all the children playing in the school yard over there,
Skipping a rope and playing some tag like they haven’t a worry or care,
Perhaps they, too, will go to school, but it seems so impossible now,
For today they will carry water and tomorrow they’ll push a plow.
And then they see a motion, for someone is waving to them,
And one little boy shyly goes to the fence where something is given to him,
A suitcase full of new clothing, and so many toys he sees,
Now often he wonders, “Just how can it be that these things were given to me”?
One person made such a big difference in the lives of those boys that day,
But no one can tell how much good it has done, and no one can really say,
But God knows, and God sees, and God will reward, for this thing was done in His name,
And as for those boys, well God only knows if their lives will be ever the same.
by David Ronald Bruce Pekrul
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