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To Win

TO WIN 4313 More motion, Lena sald: More courage, Lean dread More cheerful, More goodnose Less bad Mors liking, Less hate: More labor Leag walt

The Changed Cross

The Changed Cross 2392 It was a time of sadness, and my heart Although it knew and loved the better part Felt wearied with the conflict and the strife, And all the needful discipline of life And while I thought en these, as given to me-…

The Weeping Willow

The Weeping Willow 3997 In yon kay old country churchyard May be seen a grassy mound: There is where my mother sleepeth In the cold and silent ground Flowers round her grave ure blooming Feathered warblers sing their song But my heart…

Let Us Gather Up The Sunbeams

Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams 43611 Let us gather up the sunbeams, Lying all around our path, Let us take the wheat and roses Casting out the thorns and chaff; Let us find our sweetest comfort In the blessings of to-day, With a patient…

When The Hawthorn Blooms Again

When the Hawthorn Blooms Again 4906 "I'll come back, dear, when the year has passed AWEY I'll come dack, dear, when the flowers like snow- drifts lay Then the little birls will sing and I'll meet you down the lane, "I'll not come back when…

The Sad Part Of The Day

THE SAD PART OF THE DAY 4152 When all the house is warm and bright, And underneath the mellow light My Father reads his evening book, While I am in the fire place nook With Mother Darling, then I hear A sound so muffled, and so drear…

Good Night

Good Night 1651 How sweet the habor Evening cent the hour of sweet r The Horse Wave suck to rest, The money bright The wane who have suck ta rest, The moderne brigh Thess tranquil hours Farm the dearest link of And, while ouch…

There Is A Tavern In The Town

There Is a Tavern In the Town 2937 There is a tavern in the town, in the town And there my dear love sita him down, down, sits him And drinks his wine 'mid laughter free And never, never thinks of me Chorus- Fare thee well, for I must leave…

The Mortgage Paid

THE MORTGAGE 5994 We ain't havin' many luxuries, like city folkses do, We ain't wearin' all the latest styles an' all our clothes ain't new: Of our honesty and goodness we ain't makin' no parade, But we're havin' all we want to eat an' got…

Hotel Man

Hotel Man 508 Now doth the summer hotel man Ransack the shore and hills To find a fit foundation for A place to build big bills

The Song Of All Songs

The Song of All Songs 2814 "My Johnny Is a Shoemaker" or "Any Other Man" "The Captain With His Whiskers" and "Annle of the Vale," Along with "Old Bob Ridley" "Ariding on a Rail" "Rocke Me to Sleep Mother" "Going 'Round theHorn," "I'm Not…

To Professor Lounsbury

TO PROFESSOR LOUNSBURY 3562 The following amusing verse is ad- dressed to Professor Lounsbury, the arch- champion of popular usage in speech, by "Grammaticus" in the current Harper's weekly: "My dear Professor, though it wrackb my ear Those…

Edinburgh After Flodden

Edinburgh After Flodden 2565 News of battle!-news of battle! Hark! 'tis ringing down the street: And the archways and the pavement Bear the clang of hurrying feet News of battle!-who hath brought it? News of triumphl-who should bring…

Title Not Found

5811 I have not finished yet When our mutual friends, the great and versatile eriter, Mr Anonymous, learned that I had been assigned the task of ''entertaining'' you here today, he wrote extending his sympathies to you, and with best wiahes…

The Friend Life

The Friend Life 5824 'If our looks grow rather frigid And our stately spines stand rigid At the thought of what the Outlanders begrudge us, Treat them gently, friends-remember That of Truth we are the Ember And the Shrine-so who are they that…

My Hiding Place

My Hiding Place 89-2 (The following poem was written by Major An- dre a few days before his execution) Hall, sovereign love, which first began The scheme to rescue failen men; Hall, matchless free eternal grace, Which gave my soul a hiding…

Just The Sweetest Hat

Just the Sweetest Hat 1483 I took my last year's Panama, And knocked it out of shape, Then dyed it in some Alice blue And fastened on some crepe; I pulled the thing way out in front And bent it up behind; I stuck some feathers on one side->…

Deacon Brown

DEACON BROWN 2769 A plous man was Deacon Brown, He never raged or swore; A cyclone blew his kitchen down And through his orchard tore, But when he rose up somewhat dazed And took a long, full breath and gazed Upon the havoc that was wrought…

Waterloo

Waterloo 4744 Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain: he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival And caught its tone with Death's prophelle ear; And when they smiled becaure he deemed deemed…

Arroyo Al’s Cow Pony

Arroyo Al's Cow Pony 703 I took a trip the summer to the market with some steers, And I struck an Eastern city where they sell you tuba fer beers; I was feelin' pretty yowlish and I couldn't say my name When I wound up somehow 'nuther, at a…