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O tan-faced prairie boy! / Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift; / Praises and presents came, and nourishing food -- till at last, among the recruits, / You came, taciturn, with nothing to give -- we but looked on each other, / When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.