The Mortgage Paid
Childhood and InnocenceTHE MORTGAGE
5994
We ain't havin' many luxuries, like city folkses do,
We ain't wearin' all the latest styles an' all our clothes ain't new:
Of our honesty and goodness we ain't makin' no parade,
But we're havin' all we want to eat an' got…
On The Unknown Road
Childhood and InnocenceOn the Unknown Road
2822
Poor little heart that knowest not the way
That leads from darkness to "the perfect day,"
Shall I give judgment-finding thee astray?
I too, have wandered-I that know the light-
Far from God's smile-unutterably…
The Tip
Childhood and InnocenceTHE TIP
2502
I unmake men-teach them to sue
For wage they boldly should demand,
Or ask for more than is their due,
With servile mien and open hand
I follow at the heels of wealth,
To gather largess at me flung,
I bully, cringe, and get…
Turkey Time
Childhood and InnocenceTurkey Time
5494
And dacords feas Tink draweth night die
Get one that's you And stuff t young and sweet and fat, Il of this and that
with fruit and be ries sauces make, And add prese ves and ples and cake
Ask friends and And make Kindred all…
Thanksgiving Always
Childhood and InnocenceThanksgiving Always
4893
When barn and byre are safe,
When flocks are in the fold,
When far and near the burdened fields
Have bowed 'neath harvest's gold:
When clusters rich have dropped
From many a blushing vine,
And genial orchards,…
Come Bonnie Father
Childhood and InnocenceCome 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…
Locality
Childhood and InnocenceLocality
1605
As children little clothes, the great out grow
The places that they once inhabited-
The truly great ones, the immortal dead
Who left a name and roverance below
And when, perchance, the kindly people show
Where they were born…
There’Ll Come A Time Some Day
Childhood and InnocenceThere'll Come a Time Some Day
3366
Why are you sad, papa, my darling
Why do you look at me so strangely
Have I done wrong tell me I pray?
No, no, my child, you are an angel,
There's not a heart purer than thine:
That's why I fear some day…
An Old Classic
Childhood and InnocenceAn Old Classic
1342
11 send a song which describes the pic- ture that used to appear on the first page
of Valley Farmer It is one we used to sing at school when I was a child to the Tune the Old Cow Died On-Mrs Z Gil- liland, Marengo, 1111
Old…
Night
Childhood and InnocenceNIGHT
5703
WITHIN the shelter of thy calm, Night,
I loose the tinselled vestures of the day,
With eager hands unbind and fling away
The cap and bells that made the crowd's delight,
The shallow mask that screened me from their sight
Deep…
Chollie
Childhood and InnocenceCHOLLIE
4424
He was a youth of high degree,
His collar monstrous tall,
He lithped a pretty little lithp
And danced at every ball;
He ogled every girl he saw,
His nerve was mostly gall;
He had a bad cold in his head,
And that was all
The Wonderful One Hoss Shay
Childhood and InnocenceThe Wonderful One Hoss SHay
OLIVER WENDELL HOMES
4902
Have you heard of the wonderful one hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then of a sudden, it-ah, but stay-
I'll tell you what happened…
A Domestic Mistake
Childhood and InnocenceA Domestic Mistake
2751
Van Winker kept a country store, and his clever Wife Jeannette
Tended the children and the house, and saw that both ends met
A happy couple! yet one night, when Van had made alors,
He went unto his pleasant home-well,…
Whitewash
Childhood and InnocenceWhitewash
5756
Slain at the age of rising thirty-two,
He filled the Cup of Vice to over- flowing: he knew
Much that was better left unknown,
And what he didn't know, If tales be true,
Was not worth knowing
But as a youth he was not wholly…
The Sick Child
Childhood and InnocenceThe Sick Child
1664
I've tried so hard to go to sleep And not to fear,
But Mother dear,
It is so dark! and God won't keep
A naughty child all safe, I know:
And I was naughty Please don't gol
I am afraid with no one here
The dark is full…
The Fairy Artist
Childhood and InnocenceThe Fairy Artist
5184
O, there is a little artist
Who paints in the cold night hours
Pictures for wee, wee children,
Of wondrous trees and flowers;
Pictures of snow-white mountains
Touching the snow-white sky;
Pictures of distant oceans
Where…
I Want To Be An Angel
Childhood and InnocenceI 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…
Alcohol
Childhood and InnocenceAlcohol
2714
The daughter that prettied so sweet on his knes,
Ere he followed the tempter, on where now is she?
Does her eye brighten now when she llats to his tread?
She flees from his presence with terror and dread!
The boy once as proud…
The Country Store
Childhood and InnocenceThe Country Store
1981
What times we have at the country store!
We smoke, an' spit on the floor
While Smith weighs o our coffee and tea,
An' acts as pleasant as pleasant can be
He'll Noon become as rich as a jew,
But I want to say, twixt me…
For Sale-A Baby
Childhood and InnocenceFor 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…