Tag Archive for: Nixon Waterman

THE ONE WHO GETS THE CAKE.

THE ONE WHO GETS THE CAKE. 505.9 The man who is slow and collected May capture some prizes, perhaps: But the wideawake mind full of "ginger," you'll find, Is the one that gets into the "anaps." …

A Relapse

A Relapse. 297.7 Within the city's din and dust, Its heat and toil and friction, I dwelt, as many mortals must, Till saddened with affliction. I called a doctor, one I knew To be a skilled reliever Of human ills; said he, "Sir, you Are…

Looking for Trouble.

Looking for Trouble. 394.2 If what "they say" is really true, that all the woes that vex The men-folks are occasioned by the fairer, weaker sex, The former ought to sail away across the wide, wide sea To some far land where they could dwell…

The Breaking Plow

The Breaking Plow. 223.12 I am the plow that turns the sod That has lain for a thousand years; Where the prairie's wind-tossed Bewars nod And the wolf her wild enb rears, I come, and in my wake, like rain, In scattered the golden seed;…

THE CLOCK WILL TICK IT AWAY.

THE CLOCK WILL TICK IT AWAY. 527.2 'Mid the many tasks the years Im- pose Come blithe and blissful times, And strewn through a world of rustic prose Are ripples of restful rhymes. But the joys we deem the dearest seem The shortest in their…