Lyon.

Lyon. 330.5 Sing, birds, on green Missouri's plain, The saddest songs of sorrow, Drop tears, oh, clouds of gentlest rain, Ye from the winds can borrow; Breathe out, ye winds, your softest sigh, Weep flowers of dewy splendor For hiin who…

A Dramatic Lyric.

A Dramatic Lyric. 297.2 SOMETIMES happens that the editors of IT a magazine receive contributions that they enjoy tremendously, but for one reason or another they cannot exactly use in the de- partment for which the matter was submit-…

Way Out In the West.

Way Out In the West. 416.6 There's a country famed in story, As you've oftentimes been en told, 'Tis a land of mighty rivers, Running over sands of gold. The abode of peace and plenty. And with quietness 'tla blest, But this country that's…

Why Should We Mourn?

Why Should We Mourn? 3199 Why should we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? "Tis but the volce that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms Are we not tending upward too As fast as time can move? Nor should we wish the…

The Children

The Children 1537 Mother of many children I-sprung of my heart and my brain- And some have been borne in gladness and some have been borne in pain, But one has gone singing from out my door Never to come again Content and Ease and Comfort-they…

SONG

SONG. 256.4 SWEET is the birth of love, and the awaking, The bashful dream, the faltering desire, The vision fair,- of all fair things partaking.- The wonder, the communicable fire: Sweet, sweet the need to give and to obtain. And sweet…

The School Master’s Thesis.

The School Master's Thesis. 281.1 And set his white teeth close together, And gave his thin lips a short twist, As to say. I could whly you, confound you, Could such things be done with the fist. There were two knowing girls in the corner,…

Triumphulent

Triumphulent. 201.6 There was a boy who thought he knew Much more than grown-up people do But when they asked him how to spell Triumphulent," he couldn't tell, And said he'd only got to "hat"" And other easy words like that, But couldn't…

Araluen

Araluen. 240.2 Take this rose and very gently place it on the tend, dxp Moses where our little darling Aralue: lles asleop: Put the blossoms close to baby-kneel with me. my love, and pray: We must leave the bird, we've burled-say good- by to…

GRANDMA’S GARGEN.

GRANDMA'S GARGEN. 298.9 In Grandma's dear old-fashioned garden, Where countless flowers grow, Nodding in the soft south wind, Gently swaying to and fro, Overhead the birds are singing, To the dear old-fashioned flowers, And the honey…

CHOLLIE.

CHOLLIE. 442.4 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 a…

THE NINE-LIVED CORN.

THE NINE-LIVED CORN. 458.3 The corn was killed in early May- The flood had wasted it quite away. And later on it died again,. And rotted 'neath the constant rain. Once more we tolled its final knell; The seed had not been tested well. Yet…

A Leap-Year Plunge.

A Leap-Year Plunge. 394.5 Oh, a dreary life it are To be a fascinatin' tar And live on land in leap-year when the willin' maids is wooin'; And it drives me half insane When I thinks o' Mary Jane And the way that I rejected of 'er billin'…

The Emhattled Far,mers.

The Emhattled Farmers. 255.10 There's an army on the murch, Which plies neither word nor torch; No flags or banners mark the troopers' way. There are times it fights by night, Then again in broad daylight, And the farmer is its special…

Twilight

Twilight. 153.5 Crested waves and a long gray beach Far and far as the eyes may reach- Twilight falling on tide and foam, On a silvery sea-gull winging home, On a little pool left by the spendthrift sea Where pale stars gladden the heart…

A Question

A Question. Mabel Mahin 191.2 I study the faces of old women And ask myself a question, new and strange. To my own features will there come a change? That look of meek submission? Am I, then, No different from the others? And again, I ask,…

BUSINESS DIPLOMACY.

BUSINESS DIPLOMACY. 600.2 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…
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Wrap teh Flag Around Me, Hoys.

Wrap teh Flag Around Me, Hoys. 399.8 Oh, wrap the flag around me, boys, To die were far more sweet With freedom's starry emblem, boys, To be my winding sheet. In life I loved to see it wave, And followed where it led, But now my eyes…
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Kipling’s Call to the Children.

Kipling's Call to the Children. 549.6 Father in heaven, who lovest all, Oh, help thy children when they call, That they may build from age to age An undefiled heritage. Teach us to bear the yoke in youth With steadfastness and careful truth,…

GRAPES.

GRAPES. 298.10 Conserve of honey in deep purple glaze Of the red-ripened glory of October days, Dow of the fairies in globes of delight, With the freshness of frost in their tang and their bite. The Concord, Catawba, the sweet Isabel, Oh,…