Little Son

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A Home Pictures

A Home Picture 1853 Ben Fisher had finished his hard day's work, And he wat at his cottage door; His good wife Kate sat by his side, And the moonlight danced on the floor Her beams were plear and bright As when he and Kate, twelve years…

Cross Lots

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The Other Side Of It

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An Ode To South Dakota

AN ODE TO SOUTH DAKOTA Anna Quinn 52812 There's a land of milk and honey There's a land of golden grain, There's a land of waving corn fields, There's a land of plenty rain There's a land where all are happy, There's a land where all are blest: And…

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme

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Darky Free Methodist Song

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All The World To Me

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Fingerprints

FINGERPRINTS CHARLTON LAWRENCE EDHOLM 5981 Five little fingers' print On walls, on chairs, on the pane, All through the house our monarch makes That sign and seal of his reign Five little fingers' print On mother's throat to her breast,…

The Hirschman Clock

The Hirschman Clock 64 April eighteenth at five o'clock The Hirschman clock was ticking: It watched the Kearny-Market block And kept the minutes clicking Alas! when thirteen told that clook There came a mighty earthquake shock Oh! woe to thee,…

The Worker And The Drone

The Worker and the Drone 5273 A tolling bee from flower to flower, Made baste to gather royal sweets, Then homeward with his nectar load- Each day the willing task repeats And when the winds of winter blow, And flowers no longer yield…

The Despairing Muse

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The Old Arm Chair

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Tippity House

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A Toast

A Toast 62 I would drink a toast "New Frisco," Our beautiful city of godl; The, health to her pretty maidens, And health to her gallants bold Here's health to her patient mothers, To her fathers old and gray; Here's a quaff to our dear old…

Do You Miss Me Where You Are?

DO YOU MISS ME WHERE YOU ARE? 5223 Do you miss me where you are--- You who held me dear? While you roam from star to star, Do you pause to hear If there be a pleading cry From the world you knew, On the restless wind-swept by, Calling, calling,…

Toil

TOIL GRACE G BOSTWICK 4212 He sought for peace; he drifted here and there In many lands, and alien tongues he spoke; In vain upon his knees within a cell, The monastery's calm he did invoke And then at last when Time had filched his youth…

Watering The Lambs

Watering the Lambs 3695 Watering the Lambs Little drops of water Break the hardest rocks, Little drops of water Swell the Lambkins stocks; Little drops of water- And other little drops- Fill the largest buckets In the bucket-shops

The Vampire City

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Prayer For George Francis Key

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