Maybe So 967 If every man got all he earned And none got any more, Perhaps affairs would be o’erturned; Some men who heretofore Have put on lordly style would fall And meekly work away While other men obscure today Would loom up grand and tall But most of us, chagrined, would find Ourselves precisely […]
Using’ Up the’ Scraps Aloysius Coll 4322 It’s queer what Auntie Beck our cook Can make with all th’ scraps- She jes’ gits out her little book An’ reads it, while she taps An’ beats ’em up with her big spoon, Then pours ’em in a pan, An’ shets ’em in th’ stove, an’ sez: […]
DAKOTA’S ALL RIGHT 3943 Where do folks get the notion That sunny South Dakota Is like the Arctic Ocean Or just a little coldah! They ought to be more keerful, Remarks like this I quotesh, Are apt to make us tearful, Who live in South Dakota Who says the cold is dreaded, When workmen throw […]
Country LIfe 5702 The woods, the wold, the hill and plain, The valley and the lea, The meadow green, reen, the brook between Is joy enough for me I ask no painted countryside, No artificial skies; The picture planned by God’s good hand My longing satisfies The birds, the fowls, the horse and cow, The […]
Letter From Home 4684 Lonely I sat me and wept, Wepl as I have not for years: Oh, why do my eyes fall to keep Back those affectionate tears I think of the friends o’er the seas, Who love me wherever I roam Oh, some one go tell them for me To write me a […]
MAGDALENE 3031 What were you seeking In those days of old Magdalene, Ere the eyes of the Christ Your need read, untold; Ere the theme of his greatness Became your sole thought- Ere the beauty of wholeness Into your life was wrought? “Love exhaustless,” she murmured; “Love, deep, mighty, vast; To fold me and hold […]
Beasts 694 At West Point they no longer haze the Plebes-they drill them The thousand fiends of hazing have been exercised from the Academy by all the curses of the red tape and the gold braid The Great Red-tape Worm at the National Capitol has unwound his million coils, edict has followed manifesto and proclamation […]