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Winter Evening Hymn

WINTER EVENING HYMN 2875 Cozy and quiet and warm and bright For a book and a pipe in the winter night, Safe and cheery and restfully sweet, The dreams that come in the room's woft heat; Till, clanging and clanking spirit and soul through Comes…

The Old Schoolbook

The Old Schoolbook 1798 On the old schoolbook in the dusty nook, With a tearful eye I gaze, Come down, old friend, for an hour we'll spend In talking of bygone days I gaze once more as in days of yore, On the task that taxed the brain;…

All For The Love Of A Girl

All for the Love of a Girl 2402 Jack was a bright eyed youngster, Happy and gay was he, Mamle, his dear little sweetheart Roguish and so fair wan she One day, while they were playing This little girl, just for fun Threw her hat into the…

The Rose That All Are Praising

The Rose That All Are Praising 8410 The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for ine: Too many eyes are gazing Upon that costly tree, But I've a rose in yonder glen That shuns the gaze of other men, For me its bossoin raising- Oh,…

The Mistletoe Bough

The Mistletoe Bough 2984 The mistletoe hung in the castle hall The holly branch shone on the old oak wall: And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay And keeping their Christmas holy day: The baron beheld with a father's pride His beautiful…

The Cizar’s Lunch

The Cizar's Lunch 4365 The exar dare not hammer a walnut For fear it's a bomb in disguise; Aud ring sausage he Must not drop on his knee Lest it cover some deadly surprise!

Jack’s Combination Holiday

Jack's Combination Holiday 1151 THE reason I'm thankful On Thanksgiving Day Is 'cause I know Christmas Is well on its way A little more grateful And happy I grow As nearer and nearer To Christmas I go And then when I find that My waiting…

Little Jim

Little Jim 2397 You're right, not every time you'll meet a million- aire like me That planks you down a check for your Xmas char- fty It's downright joy for me to give, but they've more sense, they say The other fellows, but you see somehow…

Just Tell Them That You Saw Me

Just Tell Them That You Saw Me 3369 One day while in Chicago While strolling down the street 'Twas after business hours of the day I saw a girl who shrank from me, In whom I recognized My schoolmate from a village far away "Is that you,…

A Toust

A Toust 3431 "Here's to you old pal! May you live a thousand years Just to keep things lively In this vale of tears And may I live a thousand years Just short one day, For I wouldn't like to stay here When you are gone away"

Somebody’s Darling

Somebody's Darling 3045 Into a ward of the whitewashed walls, Where the dead and dying lay- Wounded by bayonets, shells, and balls- Somebody's darling was borne one day Somebody's darling! So young and so brave, Wearing still on his pale,…

Life

Life 2934 A little tolling A little pain, n day by day: little strife, A little Joy-and thay is life A little sort-lived summer's morn, When joy seems all so newly born, When one day's sky is blue above When one bird sings-and that is love A…

Ne Negative Person

Ne Negative Person 2083 If you can not by chance, Give a long song and dance On Plato or Wagner or Shelley, Or if you can't think In glid Maeterlinck Or fluently talk Botticelli: If each time you bark A Rubens remark At a long-hair-and-high-forehead…

The Old Arm Chair

The Dearest Spot On Earth To Me

The Dearest Spot on Earth to Me 5002 The dearest spot on earth to me, In home, sweet home, The fairyland I've longed to see, la home, sweet home There how charmed the sense of hearing There where hearts are so endearing, Anthomer id tet…

Van Tosk Is Yomping

Van Tosk Is Yomping 3203 Van fesk is yompin oop und down In splashing and I tell you And and the water, Ole scratch heen don't do things crown he other Thanks to how foredads and old Norway Got mighty muscle rowing, A nd Ole don't…

A Hard- Lcuk Story

A Hard- Lcuk Story 5751 TOLD 'em that a great big boy was never meant to stay A-hangin' 'round a baby cart in Franklin Park all day; I told 'em that I had to watch the fellers playin' ball, An' now I'll bet they wisht that I had done it,…

Return

Return 2815 We can't return when all is ended here To right the wrongs we do, to mend mistakes; We can't return to dry a single tear Or sooth one heart that for our folly aches

Break, Break, Break

Break, Break, Break ALFRED TENNYSON 3783 Break break, break, NYSON On the cold, gray stones O sen! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me Oh well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with his sister at play!…

I Want To Be An Angel

I Want to Be an Angel 2617 I want to be an angel And with the angels stand A crown upon my forehead A harp within my hand There, right before So glorious and my Savior so bright I'd wake the sweetest music And praise him day and night I…