The Village Oracle.
84-1
Beneath the weather-Lenten porch
That shades the village store
He sits at care, an aged man
Of three-score years or more.
That ample seat for him is placed
Beside the opell door,
His face is very keen and shrewd,…
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THE SUMMER SHIRTWAIST.
463.1
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…
In Several States.
575.4
"O come with Me., my love," he said
"We'll seek some quiet, shady Del.
Where I Kan. kiss a dainty Miss.
Ore. tell again of Cupid's spell
:: Tenn. times I love you, and I Wis.
You'd 'Ark. to me N. C. my heart
A-beating…
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Deathless.
By Lowel Otus Reese.
49.1
Thews of the dauntless Norman Knight, blood of the Saxon thane,
Eye of the hillman, cagle wise, scanning the far-off plain,
Mind of the gentle Puritan, stern in his single thought-
This was the blood…
Conscience
Theodosia Garrison
1665
Oknocking at my heart-and what art thou?
"I was the unforgiven; from your door
You spurned me once and bade me come no more
I am the ever present suppliant now"
O famine at my heart-and what art thou ?…
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Maggie's By My Side
2179
The land of my home is litting
Flitting from my view:
A gale in the sall is sitting:
Tolls the merry crew
Here let my home be
On the water's side:
I roam with a proud heart- Maggie's by my side
Refrain-
My own…
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Because He Loved Her So.
133.7
'Because I love you so," he said.
"I will achieve the proudest heights;
The jagged rocks that loom ahead
Shall not deter me! The delights
Of splendid riches and renown
I'll win as brave and strong men do,…
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SHIRT WAIST OF LAUGHING WATER.
394.1
The newspapers assert that a cru-
sade far from puritanleal is being
waged in America against the peek-
a-boo shirtwalst-World cable from London.
Then appeared fair Minnehaha,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water-…
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The Major Breaks Into Rhyme.
10.1
Not less stentorian than the
angry surf that beats the shore of,
Monterey Bay is the lyric defy
urled by Major McLaughlin, of
Santa Cruz and San Francisco,
at Wallace Irwin of New York.
Though of world-wide…
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The Bird With the Broken Pinion
610
I walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing
And found on a bed of mosses,
A bird with a broken wing
I healed its wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain;
But the…
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Woodman, Spare That Tree.
378.1
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough.
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now.
Twas my forefather's hand
That placed it near his cot.
There, woodman, let it stand;
Thy ax shall…
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Unquestioned.
537.3
That angels all are women,
Is subject for dispute.
And contrary opinions
Have borne much bitter fruit:
But here is an assertion-
Assail it, ye who can!
Since earliest creation
The Devil's been a man
…
The Snail's Reply.
201.3
I said to a snail: "In the pleasant weather
Why do you dawdle along that way?"
"Because I'm never quite certain whether
I'd rather go on or rather stay!
"There may be trouble ahead awaiting.
"There may be pleasure…
The Short Poem-Japanese and American.
240.1
The South Atlantic Quarterly con-
firms all that its contemporaries have
averred of late years regarding the
tendency of many Japanese poets to
extreme brevity. It publishes several
examples…
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A Young Champion.
255.5
Coudn't read
There was a young attorney, whose name was Gustave Reimer,
Who was-champion coupler and a lightning fadder climber.
He stirred the emulation of the boys to such a pitch,
They swore they'd win the tourna-…
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Time Is Earnest.
275.3
Time in earnest, passing by:
Death is earnest drawing nigh:
Sinner, wilt thou trifling be?
Time and death appeal to thee.
Life is earnest: when 'tis o'er.
Thou returnest nevermore
Soon to meet eternity.
Wilt thou…
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The White Pilgrim
906
I came to the spot where the white pilgrim lay
And pensively stood by his tomb,
When in a low whisper a volce seemed to say
"How sweetly 1 sleep here alone
"Twas the call of my master that led me from
home;
I bade…
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TAHITI.
308.3
Over the rim of the world,
Sunk in the dawn of day,
There lie for you and me
The Isles of Far Away.
Haste we back to find them?
It needs but you to say!
Make sail and lay our course
For the Isles of Far Away!
Lagoon and…
I'm Earning What I Git.
133.5
Nearly even the papors knock some other idol down;
Yesterday they spoiled the halo that
was work by Abner Brown-
Rich old, plus lookin' Abner! Zeems an though it can't be true
Why, the hings they charge agin…
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The Village Oracle
HistoryTHE SUMMER SHIRTWAIST.
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