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Spirit

Spirit 101-6 "I drink no wire" The Latier bland, Paused blankly staring Maak in hand The bright-eyed belles, the cuil-eyed beaux, All roured from Jinner table pose, Gave heed auch heresica demand Then slanted glance, light laughter fanned,…

I Want To Be An Angel

I Want to Be an Angel 2617 I want to be an angel And with the angels stand A crown upon my forehead A harp within my hand There, right before So glorious and my Savior so bright I'd wake the sweetest music And praise him day and night I…

I Love To Live

I Love to Live 845 "I love to live," said an aged man, Whose hour of dying was near at hand Think you such words from him were wi The old man was again a child Be it ever thus in this fallen world, Is the banner of hope to the breeze unfu And…

Oh, When I Was Single

Oh, When I Was Single 2395 Oh, when I was single, oh, then, Oh, when I was single, oh, then, oh, then Oh, when I was single the money would jingle, And I wish I was single again I married me a wife, oh, then I married me a wife, oh, then,…

Why Am I Sad And Dreary

Why am I Sad and Dreary? 2175 Why am I sad and dreary? Why does my heart grow weary? What, then, but this can cheer me, I soon shall rest in heaven Chorus- When this poor body lles slumbering in the tomb And soft winds gently sigh o'er…

I Should Like To Die Said Willie

I Should Like to Die Said Willie 2246 Not Readable "I remember that she told me once, while sitting on her knee That the angels nover weary watching over her and me: And if I was only good-Nellie told me so before- That they'd let us into…

I Love To Live

I Love to Live 844 said the prattling boy, As he gasly played with his new bought toy: And his merry laugh went echoing forth From a besom filled with joyous mirth ""I love to live,' said the stripling bold; 'I would toll for wealth I would…

Things I Meant To Do

THINGS I MEANT TO DO 45410 It's true I haven't done a lot To show my natural bent: The things to judge folks by is not The act, but the intent The crop that measured scant and small, The roof where rain came through- Don't notice them They…

Prayer

PRAYER 4672 I stood upon the threshold; musical Reverberant footsteps ghostlike came and went And my lips trembled as magnificent Before me rose a vision of that hall Whereof great Milton is the mighty wall, Shakespeare the dome with…

The Last Of Winter

I The Last of Winter 2081 Oh, not for us the primrose faint, the south wind's hush-a-low Down shining aisles of the beech-trees that know us years ago! Here there's a long, long allence and the dumbly falling snow The prairie polls away,…

The Reson I Left The Farm

"The Reson I Left the Farm 833 ""There's that speckled calf, do you see him? Well, he's a Christmas gift for you, Jim He's not been doing well this fall; He's got so he won't come when I call But you can have him for a Christmas gift, Go fetch…

Rondeau

Rondeau 2188 I promised to obey? Perhaps that's so I do not? Well, that, too, I think I know You see, I'd no experience of men You weren't a bear, who growled about his den; Your claws and teeth you were too smart to show Oh, but you were…

In The Country

How kind I sm to be a toller where There ain't no smoke to make your col- Ine binck- thosh! how that son does beat down on my back Where every prospect pinuses, an' the air is always pure an' bracin- declare My tongue feels almost dry enough…

I Want To Be A Soldier

I Want to be a Soldier 2309 On Decoration day the soldiers marched away A mother held her young son by the hand; They marched marched in in mourning dressed, all find rest to where we Reside & grave her boy and she now stand: "It's here…

I Could Not Call Her Mother

I Could Not Call Her Mother 4905 The marriage rite was over, And tho I turned aside To keep the guests from seeing The tears I could not hide I wreathed my face in smiles And led my little brother To greet my father's chosen, But I could…

The Girl I Left Behind Me

The Girl I Left Behind 2305 I'm lonesome since I crossed the hills and o'er the moor that's sedgy With heavy thoughts any imlod is filled since I have parted with Peggy parted Whene'de I turn fall and blind me the place the tears doth When…