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Summer And Winter

SUMMER AND WINTER 5692 What are the bright eyes watching Under the Southern sun? Oh, the roses fair in the balmy air, And the vines that climb and run What are the bright eyes watching Under the Northern sky? Feathery snow, while the chill…

A Shocking Tale

A Shocking Tale 3438 "Ha!" cried the young electrician gay, As he ogled the girls in the park "Perhaps it is true I've a shocking way For I'm an electrical spark" But he ogled too long, and a malden complained, As too ardently he pressed…

Time Is Earnest

Time Is Earnest 2753 Time in earnest, passing by: Death is earnest drawing nigh: Sinner, wilt thou trifling be? Time and death appeal to thee Life is earnest: when 'tis o'er Thou returnest nevermore Soon to meet eternity Wilt thou never…

The Bosn’s Story

THE BOSN'S STORY 5171 We was scuddin' under the Southern Cross off the coast o' Van Dieman's Land, An' the cook had peppered the skipper's duft by a slip o' his starboard hand; The skipper he swore with a tarrible oath that the cookee's name…

A Poet, Too

A Poet, Too 3358 The Rochester (N Y) Times ваув: "Johu Howard Bryant, an only surviving brother of William Cullen Bryant, agod about 30 years, resides in Princeton, Ill He is unknown to fame, but not for want of native ability, which,…

Never Court But One

Never Court but One 4541 I have finished him a letter telling him he's free! From this moment and forever he la nothing more to ma And my heart feels lighter #ayer, since the deed at last in done I will teach him that while courting he should…

Come Bonnie Father

Come Bonnie Father 2767 Bonnie Father O father, dear father The clock in come home with me now the strople striken one: ou said you wer were coming TIMI You shop ink right home from the As moot a your day's work was done, The fire's…

Too Late

TOO LATE 5648 What silence we keep year after year, With those who are most near tous and dear; We live beside each other day by day And speak of myraid things, but sel- dom say The full, sweet word that lies just in our reach, Beneath…

Our Beautiful Spelling

OUR BEAUTIFUL SPELLING 3193 There once was a man from St Paul Who was so exceedingly taul, That it often was said When he lay down in bed, His feet stuck clear out in the haul

Minnie Minton

Minnie Minton 84-8 Minnie Minton In the shadow- I have waited here, alone; On the battle's gory meadow Which the southe of death has mown I have listened for your coming Till the weary dawn of day: But I only hear the drumming As the…

A Growler

A Growler 2247 He fusses at the walter Who brings his morning eggs, He blesses out the "newsle" Who, cold and ragged, begs That he will buy a paper, And on the trolley car He grumbles to his neighbor At every little jar He storms into…

Johnny’s Pocket

Johnny's Pocket 963 Do you know what's in my pottet? Such a lot of treasures in it: Listen now while I bedin it; Such a lot of sings it hot, And all there is you sall be told- Everysin dat's in my pottet And where and when and how I dot…

A Traveler

A Traveler By Olinton Sollard 951 A By Clinton Beollard in Outlook Into the dusk and snow One fared on yesterday; No man of us may know By what mysterious way He had been comrade long; We fain would hold him still; But, though our will…

Columbia

Columbia 2985 Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise The queen of the world and the child of the akles Thy genius commands thee, with raptures behold, While ages on ages thy spiendors unfold; Thy reign is the last and the noblest of time, Most…

The Orphans

Shells Of Ocean

Shells of Ocean 2566 One summer eve, with pensive thoughts, I wandered on the sea-best shore, Where oft in heedless infant sport I gathered shells in days before The splashing waves like music fell Responsive to my fancy wild: A dream…

In The Baggage Coach Ahead

In the Baggage Coach Ahead 1791 On a dark, stormy sight as the train rattled on All the passengers had come to bed Except one you with both a baby in his arme, Who sat there bowed down head The Innocent one began cryink just then, As though…

Lora Vale

Lora Vale 1796 Calmly feil the alivery moonbeams, Over hill and over vale, As with mournful heartee lingered By the couch of Lora Vale She was dying, gentle Lor She was passing like a sigh From a world of love and beauty To a fairer…

Little Maud

Little Maud 3367 Oh, where is our dainty, our darling, The daintiest darling of all? Oh, where is the voice in the stairway, Oh, where is the voice in the hall? The little short steps in the entry The silvery laugh in the hail- Oh, where…

Until Equity Is Here

Until Equity Is Here 5974 In the rustle of the cornfields And the plowman's weary tread; And the fingers of the tassels, Raised beseechingly o'erhead, In them all a thousand volces Whisper in the list ning ear "Toll will ne'er possess…