Scotch Lassie Jean

Scotch Lassie Jean 646 In Scotland'a fair lands, over mountains and riffs, That's where I roamed for many a day In looking at the lads and lassles on the green, In the fair old hand of Scotland far away I have waited for her coming, but…

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy

The Bachelor's Soliloquy 2435 To wed or not to wed; That is the question Whether 'tis better To remain single, And disappoint a few women- For a time; Or marry, And disappoint one woman- For life?

The Make-Believe Boy

The Make-Believe Boy 1284 He used to come when I was alone, And we'd play games; but the most ghost, ';d tell him stories-pirate, chomo And what I'll do when I am grown, A girl moved in the house next door- I didn't eare: I don't like…

Maud Mailer’s Bike

Maud Mailer's Bike 3362 Maud Muller on a summer's day Maunted her wheel and rode away Beneath her blue cap glowed a wealth Of large red treckles and rat rate health Ringing, she rode, and her merry glen Frightened a sparrow from his free:…

Green Grows The Laurel

Green Grows the Laurel 84-7 I once list a true love, but now I have honel She has gone und left me, I live all alone I live all alone, and contented I'll be Till she finds another one better than ma Chorus- Green grows the laurel, clinging…

Rock Of Ages

Rock of Ages 116-1 "Rock of ages, cleft for ine" Thoughtlessly & maiden sung Fell the words inconsciously, From her girlish gleeful longue: Sang as little children sing Sang va sing the birds in June, Fell the words like light leaves down,…

Spelling Reform In Puzzle-Dom

SPELLING REFORM IN PUZZLE-DOM 4367 Did anybody say anything about Reformed Spelling? No, it isn't my wicked intent to stir up a row during this season of good will, but I must take this occasion to say that for economy of space we puzzlists…

Gathering Home

Gathering Home 4738 Up to the beautiful giver of life, Gathering home, gathering home Up to the dwelling where cometh no strife T he dear ones are gathering home Chorus- Gathering home, gathering home, Never to mrrow ingre, never to roam,…

Three Perished In The Snow

Three Perished in the Snow 9011 Twas on a stormy winter's night The snow was falling fast A mother and two little babes, Wero wand'ring through the blast; Still clinging to their mother's breast, The little ones would cry, "Please, mamma,…

The Belle Of South Dakota

The Belle of South Dakota 1851 She stood beside her broncho, On the prairie, sweet and fair, Her eyes yere blue and sparkling And golden was her hair A lovely pleture mid the flowers That grew a ound her there A bright and handsome creature,…

Skipper Ireson’s Ride

Skipper Ireson's Ride 2873 BY John Greenleaf Whittier Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme On Apulentus' Golden Ass, Or one-eved Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human hack, Islam's prophet…

Hope

Hope By Mabel Porter Pitts 51 Out somewhere from the darkness of the East Three travelers come; Content in what they fail to understand Each moves across the heat-veiled desert sand As though he held a chart within his hand; Their fervor, by…

Haheulinden

Haheulinden Thomas Camprell 2302 On Londen when the sun was low All brodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rollire rapidly Fat Lindan saw another sight When the drum beat at dead of right, Commanding…

At The Table

AT THE TABLE 5537 The years have sped since irst I led You to the table, le, deat And you sat over there alone And I sat smiling here A year or two flew past, and you No longer sat alone, A little one was in your arms, Your darling and…

At Salute

At Salute 5285 The kind stands by and baies his head Why is it so? I was a clod (he would have said) An hour ago An hour ago, ere I was dead I would have barod, And he, the king, with needless tread Onward had fared And now, this change-what…

The Chuck Wagon

THE CHUCK WAGON 2766 A cowpuncher's cafay A It is that-o-way, An' we sulke it kerslam 'bout three times a day: When cook rells, "Come git it!" He don't have to plead, "Hi yip! all you logles, come gather your feed!"

A Defense Of Father

A Defense of Father 6411 Nobody knows the money it takes To keep the home together; Nobody knows of the debt it makes, Nobody knows-but father Nobody's told that the boys need shoes And girls hats with a feather: Nobody else old clothes…

Jesus Seat

Jesus Seat 5918 Far far away o'er the deer, blue sea Lived a man who was as kind as kind could be He loved Hitle children, and spread every day A table from which none went hungry away Poor children came in from alley and street With rags…

Phoenix Redivivus

Phoenix Redivivus By Theodor H Hittell 504 A light gleams o'er the Golden Gate; A pall of of smoke o'erspreads the sky; The burning city meets its fate; In smouldering heaps its ruins lie The morning comes; another light Far brighter than…

The Old Kitchen Floor

The Old Kitchen Floor 3308 Far back in my musings my thoughts have been cast, To the spot where the hours of my childhood wero passed I loved ali its rooms, to the pantry and hall, But that blessed old kitchen was dearer than all Its chairs…