Tag Archive for: Miscellaneous Reflections
“Boys, Keep Up The Fire”
Reflections"Boys, Keep Up the Fire"
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When old Winter was doin' his level best- Winds howlin' higher an' higher,
The old man would say,
In his old-fashioned way - -
"Boys, keep up the fire!"
An' we stored up that lesson fer many a day :
When we…
His Kindly Efforts
ReflectionsHis Kindly Efforts
2011
He is one of these cheerful old boys
If you ever get into a hole you
Will writhe at the means he employs
In his well-meant attempt to console you
He will tell you that care killed a cat,
He will smile and say "Nonsense!"…
A Young Champion
ReflectionsA Young Champion
2555
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-…
Which Road
ReflectionsWhich Road?
2015
If you could go back to the forks of the road
Back the long miles you have carried the load;
Back to the place where you had to de- cide
By this way or that through your life to abide;
Back of the grieving and back of the care,
Back…
Cork
ReflectionsCork
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The following was written at the time of Grant's tour of the world, 1879,
Doublin gave him the free- dom of the city:
Cork voted not to receive him Lament, ye muses! that Cork refuses
To kindly welcome our President,
Whom foreign…
Babies
ReflectionsBabies
1761
Babies short and babies tall,
Bables big and babies small
Blue-eyed bables, bables haiir,
Brown-eyed babies, with lots of hair
Babies so tiny tiny they the can't sit up;
Babies that drink from a silver cup:
Bables that coo…
Will Be Him
ReflectionsWill Be him
5504
When Uncle Jack into the back
Of Finance sticks a knife,
The dear old cuss is teaching us
To lead the Higher Life
For every time he does a crime
That makes his conscience smart,
Then Uncle Jack trots out the sack
And…
To A Star
ReflectionsTo A Star
159
To Him who guards our city, hearts, the home,
-And who, in uniform of blue, patrols
His beat from morn 'til night as he controls
The wilful, who, with evil intent, roam
To desecrate e'en holy, sacred dome
Be honor given,…
Repartee Irlandaise
ReflectionsRepartee Irlandaise
5502
Once a man with a scolding wife couldn't agree,
And the priest was called in to see what could be done
From your scolding and fight- ing, your neighbors," said he,
"Imagine you're twenty in- stead of being one
That…
Wealth
ReflectionsWealth
3439
The cares of wealth, so we are told,
Forbid the smile and chaff:
The julep holds the only mint
Whose owner dares to laugh
My Dad’s Dinner Pall
ReflectionsMy Dad's Dinner Pall
3831
I'll preserve that old kettle, so blackened and worn
It belonged to my father before I was born:
It hung in the corner beyond on a nail
It's the emblem of labor, my dad's dinner pail
Chorus-
It glistened like stiver,…
Washing Day
ReflectionsWashing Day
3784
But what he had to dine upon,
In faith I shall not say,
But I'll wager he'll not come again
Upon a washing day
For it's thump, thump, etc
On the sad morning when I rise
I make a fervent prayer
Up to the gods that it…
Triumphulent
ReflectionsTriumphulent
2016
There was a boy who thought he knew
Much more than grown-up people do
But when they asked him how to spell
Triumphulent," he couldn't tell,
And said he'd only got to "hat""
And other easy words like that,
But couldn't…
The Auto Blew Up At Lodore
ReflectionsThe Auto Blew up at Lodore
3084
You have heard how the water
Came down at Lodore
(If you haven't you oughter; It's old as old Yore)
But perhaps you may never
Have heard tell before
How the auto went up
In the town of Lodore
It blew…
Da’ American Girl
ReflectionsDa' American Girl
5501
I gatta mash weeth Mag
An' she ces 'Mericana, too!
Ha! wa'at you theenk? Now, mebbe so,
You weell no calla me so slow
Ef some time you can looka seo
How she ees com' an' flirt weeth ane
Most evra two t'ree day,…
Vanity Vanity
ReflectionsVANITY VANITY
42211
Fiirtilla had a brand-new purse,
The latest thing-it cost a plie
Flirtilla's broke: this maid perserse
She blew herself to be in style
Flirtilia wears it every minute,
This gorgeous purse-with nothing in it!
…
A New Poet
ReflectionsA NEW POET
4852
The new poet, Archie Sullivan, whom
Appletons have discov- ered, has been writing a series of remarkably fine poems on precious stones The verses are gems in themselves, and
Mr Sullivan has polished them with the skill of…
The Song Of The Rose
ReflectionsThe Song of the Rose
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No beautiful notice have I on the hiш
No pictures to hang in my halls
But never a painter could match with his skill,
The roses abloom on my walls
Chorus-
Then sing we a song of the rose,
A song that is tender…
Make Home Happy
ReflectionsMake Home Happy
2619
Though we may not change the cottage
For the masaion tall and grand,
Nor exchange the little grass-plot
For a boundless stretch of land
Though we have no mesna to purchas
Costly pictures, riety and rare
Though we…
Ah Picks By De Light O’ De Moon
ReflectionsAH PICKS BY DE LIGHT O' DE MOON
4585
Ah knows a medda whar de grasgrows sweet
An' lil' cool crik runs along
An' Ah wuke all day in de scotchin' heat,
But at night jls' hear ma song
Ah don' belong to no white man,
Dis nigga's all his own;
An'…