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 a coward, and say, “What use to try?” Remember, […]
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 And your arches spring up to the crested wave Yere & funny […]
Ethics of the Dust 1691 See the madly blowing dust- Dusty dust! How it revels in the gust, How it cove with a crust Of tenacious, moisty must, Ev’ry object in the street, It is monarch of us all – When it rises up we fail: When it comes, When it hums, Ev’ry kind of […]
August Days 3595 In bosky fens the cat-talls swing And wild, rad Intlies blow; And on the hills like signal fires The scarlet authache glow At noon along their wooded banks The streams deep shadows hold, And grain fields billow in the breeze Like seas of molten gold In August days like tented fields The […]
BUSINESS DIPLOMACY 6002 Ees fat Dootch barber gotta shop Tree door from deesa bootblack stan’, An’ when he see da trade I gat He try for bust me eef he can, An’ so be geeve outside hees shop A chalr for neegger bootblack man You theenk dat I am feela bad For see heem gat […]
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 Hill’s purple heather Do they take from the rose […]
Spring 4688 In the spring Ferdie sat next to his chum on the steps of Old North, caroling college chanties with the Seniors And Ferdie composed the following, which he gave to the soloist, who passed it along until it was split into barber-shop har- monies by the chorus:
Because of You 1283 Sweet have I known the blossoms of the morning Tenderly tinted to their hearts of dew; But now my flowers have found a fuller fragrance Because of you Long have I worshiped in my soul’s enshrining High visions of the noble and the true; Now all my aims and all my […]
A Boy’s Best Friend Is His Mother 1273 I’ve been thinking of late Of a time that’s passed away Of a friends in whom I could confide Of my dear old mother’s knce, Around which I used to play, How I missed her sweat face when she died How well I loved her no one […]
The Beggar Girl 3296 Over the mountain and over the moor Barefoot and cold I wander forlorn My father is dead and my mother Is poor She weeps o’er the days that will never return Chorus: Pity, kind gentlemen, friends of humanity, Keen blows the wind and the night coming on Give me some food, […]
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 its quiet home And strange, sweet flowers […]
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 pale; And when the sorrowing year had slowly waded, With failing footsteps, through […]
CANNED MUSIC 4581 There’s a gramophone next door, Cross the street are seven more And about the block I live in there must be at least two weoro (I have counted twenty-four), And they warble and they sing And they do most everything, Ragtime, jagtime, band tunes, grand tunes, Banjo tunes and highland sling: And […]
Christmas Gifts 3842 “What did you get for Christmas?” “Oh, nothing much,” he said “Nothing but a picture book, And a pair of skates and a sled “And a new fur cap, and a muffler, And a train of cars, and a ball, And a top, and a game, and an engine, And some candy, […]
Now 633 The golden leaflets fly Around the breezy knoll And wake our heartfelt sigh- Anent the price of coal The doughnut leaps in glee And thrums its dainty lute, And on the willow tree Flip flaps the bathing suit The lush persimmon drops With pensive air serene, The foot ball gayly pops And bobs […]
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 to wed him, But I hardly think I […]
HUMILITY 5546 Ensainting all the visible world, the dim And reticent night upon the harvest lands In silent benediction lays its hands; Curved as the chine of a great beast, the grim Hill heaves against the sky its shaggy rim- One of the nights when Jupiter commands Stars as the sea’s incalculable sands, Veiling their […]
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 on her child the tears are […]
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 And ancient anchorite Oh, peekaboo! Your foes are few, Your enemies are less; For goodness […]
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 pain- Such stillness, darkness, sudden dawn I never knew or looked upon! This ardent, […]