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The Irish Pipes
THE IRISH PIPES 4472 I heard the piper playing The piper old and blind: And know its secret saying- The voice of the summer wind I heard clear waters falling, Lapping from stone to stone The wood dove crying and calling Ever alone, alone I heard the bells of the heather Ring in the summer […]
Jolly Students
Jolly Students 2028 You may talk about your colleges, fair Harvard and old Yale, And all the universities whose banners brave the gale, Of the azure flag of Cambridge, and old Oxford’ snoble blue That fly in far old England over hearts both staunch and true; From the sunny shores of Frisco up to distant […]
Finnigan To Flannigan
Finnigan to Flannigan S W GILLILAN 4167 Superintindint wiz Flannigan; Boss of the section wuz Finnigin; Whiniver the kyars got off’n the thrack An’ muddled up things t’ the divil an’ back, Finnigin writ it to Flannigan, Afther the wrick wuz all on agin; That is, this Finnigin Repoorted to Flannigan Whin Finnigin furst wrote […]
The Secret
THE SECRET 5547 “But you have grown so grave and sweet”- His questioning eyes I could not meet A rose and its bud within his hand I gently laid Did he understand? -Mary Normile
The Ship That Never Returned
The Ship that Never Returned 18010 On a summer’s day, when the waves were rippled By n soft and gentle breeze, A ship set sall with a cargo laden For port beyond the a sens There were fond farewells, There were loving amiles, While their forms were yet discerned; Though they knew it not “Twas […]
Marguerite
Marguerite 5606 Marguerite! Marguerite! my star of hope I dread the day you’ll forget me, Marguerite! And still I know it soon will come, The festive dance, the rich, the gay, So different from our home, Marguerite! I would not chide thee, Chide thee, Marguerite! Nor mar one joy of thine so sweet; But, oh, […]
A Song
A SONG 518-1 Scatter in spring-time a handful of seeds, And gather in summer a lapful of flowers This is the song of the birds in the bowers, This is the song of the wind in the reeds Down by the roadside and over the meads, Under the sunshine and under the show- ers, Scatter […]
Somewhere
Somewhere 4648 Heavy and low the clouds above us frowned: Surfing the air, parched was the thiraty plain; Hushed were the birds, and, prone upon the ground Tay the limp vines, and walted for the rain Malevolent the dim cloud giants leered, Then slunk nway, the trees their fovered hands Stretched fortii in pleading, but […]
It’s Going Up
It’s Going Up 584 -It’s going up, it’s going up, Although we thought it went; It still keeps climbing, climbing Its rocky, steep ascent; And we in awe perspiring Just wonder where we’re at, For still the rents keep going up, And other things like that The price of labor rises high With every changing […]
Work Well Done
Work Well Done 2127 The work is well done that is willingly done And the hands do not lag in their task, Then the love and good will of the la- boring one, Keep on, with no questions to ask The work is well done that is cheerfully done, And clouds do not shadow the […]
Baby In Church
Baby In Church 416-1 Aunt Nellie bad fashioned a dainty thing Of Hamburg and ribbon and lace, And mamma had said, as she settled it round Our beautiful baby’s face, Where the dimples play and the laughter Hes Like sunbeams hid in her violet eyes: “If the day is pleasant and baby ls good She […]
The Heaviest Cross
THE HEAVIEST CROSS Edgar M More 4851 It must be pitiful to bear great blame, All undeserved, sure that with open scorn, Or unclean jests of their own vileness born, Or covert sneers, vile lips repeat your name To know that honest men whom you have loved Do speak you ill; or else, from very […]
Address To A Mummy
Address to a Mummy Horace Smith 2245 And thou hast walked about how strange a story! In Thebes’ streets three thousand years ago, When the Memronium was in all its glory And Time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles tremendous Of which the very ruins are stupendous Speak! for thou long […]
The Little German Home
The Little German Home 4533 I love to think about those days so full of fun and Joy That never will come back again to me; It was many, many years agone when but a little boy I lived there so happy, light, and free I used to play about all day and drive the […]
The Beautiful Hills
The Beautiful Hills 4574 The cities of yore that were reared in crime And renowned by the praise of seern, Went down in the tramp of old King Time To sleep with his gray haired years: But the beautiful hills rise bright and strong Thro the smoke of old time’s red ware As on that […]
A Swarm Of Bees
A swarm of Bees 2394 B hopeful B cheerful is happy, is kind, B busy of body It modest of mind It earnest B truthful Is firm, and B fair Of all Miss & Havior it sure and it ware B think ere you stumble for what may B fall: B truthful to yourself and […]
Challenged
CHALLENGED 1987 She said that I couldn’t, “Twas challenging too, For she meant, that I shouldn’t When she said that I couldn’t So tell me who he could do Show what he could do When she said that he couldn’t? I would, wouldn’t?
The Stricken City
The Stricken City 103 I They will build it great, they will build It strong Its streets the children of men will throng: It will be superb with its lofty domes And its marble halls and its stately homes, But never again can it ever he The city I journeyed far to see II They […]
The Touch Of A Hand
THE TOUCH OF A HAND 4092 At times when the world seems dead, And the heart is bound in frost, Where every bird or blossom Forgotten is, or lost; A hand is laid in ours- Ah, the world is not so wrong, And for every bud that blooms The heart leaps up in song! -Margaret […]