The Refugee

The Refugee 631 -They call the fund "revolving," In their little pleasant way; We call the fund dissolving, As we watch it every day Revolving or dissolving, Or whatever is its name, Relief as it's administered 'S a very pretty game For,…

Five O’Clock In The Morning

Five O'clock in the Morning 904 The dew lay gilstening on the grass, A mist was o'er the brook At the earitest gleam leam of the golden sun The swallow her nest forBook: The snowy blooms of the hawthorn tres Lay thickly the ground adorning…

Song Of A Thousand Years

Song of A Thousand Years 1279 A thousand years, my own Columbia 'Tis the glad day so long foretold; 'Tis the glad morn whose early twilight Washington saw in times of old What to the clouds one little monent Hide the bine sky when morn…

Gently Down The Stream Of Time

Gently Down the Stream of Time 642 Gently down the stream of Time Floats our bark toward the sea, Sweetly penis the evening chime Hear It echo wild and free Friends have gone, ties have been broken, Fears and doubts and hopes sublime, Careless…

Times Had Changed

Times Had Changed 704 One day not very long ago, there walked in Gotham town The shades of two old patriarchs, from heaven Just come down: And na they wandered, open mouthed, at all there was to Bов 'Tis sald one touched the other with a…

A Pope To Date

A Pope to Date 2341 Weary of gauds, disgusted with the shows, We turn from riot, "bubbles," rouge and beaux, Smile as we leave the garish social whirl, Omit to smoke, play bridge, besmirch, or curl; Eschew the scandals of our well-bred…

Vane Of Quillcote

Vane of Quillcote 632 There's an old gray barn where the swallows used to flit, All spicy and fragrant with hay: Thro its sunlit gloom ran the children to and fro, And their laughter was ringing all the day On the high-piled mow they would…