Tag Archive for: Hope and Inspiration

A Miracle

A MIRACLE 3705 April, April, full of hopes, All a world of sunny sheen 'Round her, wanders up our slopes, Bluebirds following, in her hands Bursting leaf bud's tender green, Laughing, tilting, on the rocks She hangs her saxifrage, and…

The Despairing Muse

THE DESPAIRING MUSE 3596 Somebody has stolen the old garden | gate, The millwheel has gone to decay The old oaken bucket is missing of late, It must have been taken away The little red school house is wreck- ed and torn down, Neglected its…

Mcginnis And The Union Label

McGINNIS AND THE UNION LABEL 4633 Has it got the union label, McGin- nis used to say, Has it got the union label, show it to me if you're able, If it hasn't got the label take the bloomin' thing away McGinnis had no children though he hoped…

The Game

THE GAME 4791 When a movement you start for re- forming a town And your motives are lofty and no ble and pure, They'll depict you in stripes; they will call you a clown, There's no end of insult you'll have to endure They'll make you account…

The Result

The Result 2407 You get a girl-a peach, a dream- One that can turn at once your head? Oh, no; that kind is not my theme: You get a girl to bake the bread- To bake the bread and scrub the floor, To iron, wash and dust, perhaps, To drive…

An Optimist

AN OPTIMIST 5493 By its hopeful example the teakettle cheers Our lot when our cares are depressing; For although in hot water clear up to its ears It sings as if life were a blessing It isn't worth while to fret, dear, To walk as behind…