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When The Cows Come Home

When the Cows Come Home Mrs Agnes E Mitchell 2242 With klingle, klangie, klingle, 'Way down the dusky dingle The cows are coming home; Now, sweet and clear, and faint and low, The alry tinkiings come and go Like chimings from some far oft…

The Will And The Way

THE WILL AND THE WAY 5314 There's something I'd have you remember, boys, To help in the battle of life; It will give you strength in the time of need And help in the hour of strife Whenever there's something that should be done, Don't be…

The Coral Inseel

The Coral Inseel 2561 Toll on! Toll out Yo ephemeral train, Wh ouild in the tossing and treacherous main; Toll en! For the wisdom of man ye mock With your sand based structures and domes of rock; Your estumes the fathomless fountains live…

The Butterflies Of May

The Butterflies of May 1663 Written for the News Letter by the Marquis de Louville Who knows what may be in the butterflies' wings When they play in the warm air together, If they say in a butterfly's way, loving things From the Tea to the…

Why Am I Sad And Dreary

Why am I Sad and Dreary? 2175 Why am I sad and dreary? Why does my heart grow weary? What, then, but this can cheer me, I soon shall rest in heaven Chorus- When this poor body lles slumbering in the tomb And soft winds gently sigh o'er…

Reason

Reason 3292 While wafts of song blew shoreward, dim and sweet And sleeping still (because unwaked by you) I dreamed and dreamed, and thought my visions truc I woke when all the crimson color faded And wanton Autumn's lips and cheeks were…

Green Bill

Green Bill 4543 I will tell you of a fellow Of a fellow I have seen; He is neither white nor yellow, But is altogether green His name it is not charming For it's only common Bill Chorus for first, second, and third verse He urges me…

For Sale-A Baby

For Sale-A Baby CHARLES K HARRIS 3198 In a cheerless room there sits a sad young mother Holding in her arms a baby so fair and sweet In the pantry there's no food to give the baby There's no shoes to cover up its tiny feet: As she gazes…

The Summer Shirtwaist

THE SUMMER SHIRTWAIST 4631 Oh, peekaboo! I tell you true, As every person knows And must confess, You're almost dress And very nearly clothes Oh, peekaboo! The glimpses you Permit of shoulders white Would tempt, I fear The most austere…

San Francisco

San Francisco By Joaquin Miller 492 Such darkness, as when Jesus died! Then sudden dawn drave all before Two wee brown tomtits, terrified, Flashed through my open cottage door; Then instant out and off again And left a stillness like to…

A Family,

A Family 4001 Whenever a man's to be shot in the back And the shooter escape by a hypocrite's tack: When a bully is wanted to stand in the dark And without word or warning, to make for his mark One unsuspecting, unknowing, unarmed, All…

“Hello Central”

"Hello Central" 4223 Papa, I'm so sad and lonely Sebbet a tearful little child: Since dear mamma's gone to heaven, Dearest napa, you've not smiled I will speak to her and tell her That we want her to come home Just you listen and I'll…

The Same Old Cub

The Same Old Cub 104 Oh, fair city of the Golden Gate, you whom I loved so well Brought out of Paradise into chaos to the very brinks of hell Ruin and desolation faced her on every hund, And sadly the news, traveled throughout the broad land: Her…

The Night Rain

The Night Rain Lorenzo Sosso 4251 Oh, how the western wind to-night wailed by, Stirring the mute trees in their somber shrouds! The slowly moving caravan of clouds Crossed wearily the desert of the sky But silence like to death, As though…

Stay, Father, Stay

Stay, Father, Stay 3848 Stay, father, stay, the night is wild; Leave not alone your dying child I feel the Joy hand of death And shorter, shorter, grows my breath Stay, father, stay, alone, alone With none to cheer or none to mourn, How…

Mary’s Pets

MARY'S PETS 5009 Mary had a little lamb, One day it got the croup; She sold it to a packing house- It's now canned ox-tail roup Mary had to have a pet; She bought a cunning cow Which died of splitting headaches soon: It's country sausage…

Since My Mother Died

Since My Mother Died 2029 I'm lonely since my mother died, Though friends and kindred gather near I cannot check the rising sigh Or stay the silent heartfelt tear, Of earthly friends she was the best My erring youthful feet to guide: Oh, do…

The Old Rocking Chair

The Old Rocking Chair 901 It stands over there in the enen alone, The varnish is cracked and one rooker is gone) What's left of its tidy is dusty and brown And ecatiored and ellent its fringes bang downt No bongater sopeareth to warble…

The Bubble And The Gold

The Bubble and the Gold 3741 THE diver in unshapely coat of mail Sank eagerly to search out hintedgold With passing interest, as his lines were told, The crowd looked on-then turned with shouts to hail A gaily clouted clown in shallop frail Who…

The Door

The Door Wirginis Woodward Oloud 953 Virginia Woodward Cloud in Harper's Bazar The door is shut; what lies beyond I may not see nor know Thou of the Past-O dear and fond! Go not the way I go The door is shut and I am blind To star if…