Togus, down in Maine: an old soldiers refrain

Broadsheet. To be sung to the tune: Bingen on the Rhine. Within double-line border. At head of title cut of soldier between two American flags. At end of text: Price ten cents. David D. Gilson. Poem in 24 four-line stanzas about Civil War disabled veterans' home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because inmates of home are described as elderly.
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