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Never Alone

Never Alone 84-2 (Another version) Lo! I am with you alway, Even unto the end: When you are sad and weary I will my comfort send When on the path before you Shadows of sorrow lle, Then will I send my sunshine, Then will I need your cгу Chorla No…

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day 908 There is no home of which a, man may say: "We want no turkey on Thanksgiving day" There is no barnyard where the turks don't feel The end of living's this a good, square meal

I Remember, I Remember

I Remember, I Remember Thomas Hood 2982 I remember, I remember T he house where I was born The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn: He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day: But now I often wish the night…

The Reason For It

The Reason For It 4866 For It Although she braved the breakers, She couldn't swim at all, But when she donned her bathing suit And flung aside her shawl And in the sand disported To show her ankie trim This girl of ancient family Was…

Damsel Dorothy

Damsel Dorothy OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 2988 Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the most distin- guished of the New England group of writers, was born in 1800, and was one of the graduating class of Harvard in 1820 which contained so many cele…

The Little Heroine

The Little Heroine 1652 "Eay, who will climb the belfry tower And cut cut that banner down; All broken in the Austrian's power, They gullop from the town "And surely the an Idie taunt With this day's victory gained, To see you painted…

Little Orphant Annie

Little Orphant Annie 5384 Little Orphant Annie has come to our house to stay, To wash the cups an' saucers up and brush the crumbs away An' shoo the chickens off the porch and dust the hearth and sweep, An' make the fire and bake the bread…

The Man Behind

THE MAN BEHIND 5982 There's a fat girl on the trolley car and she's a blooming peach, She's standing on her toes to keep the strap within her reach, The car is going round the curve and she lets go the strap, Tis the man behind the paper…

The Dying Child

The Dying Child 964 Go open wide the door, mother And let the angela in: For they are bright and fair, mother, So pure and free from sin I hear them speak my name, mother, They sweetly whisper come Oh let the angels in, mother, For…

St Anthony’s Temptations

St Anthony's Temptations 1162 St Anthong sat on a lowly stool And a book was in his hand: Never Als eves from its page he tock Either to left or right to lock But with steadfast soul, as was his rule, The holy page he scanned "We will woo"…

Home

Home 1272 Sometimes, in dreams, I see a room With massive walls and fair; Rose-shaded lights shut out the gloom, The air is sweet with flowers in bloom And you are there Sometimes, the room I see in dreams Is homely, small, and bare; The…

The Indian Hunter

The Indian Hunter 5591 Oh, why does the white man follow my path Like a hound on the tiger's track? Does the hook on my dark phnek waken his wrath Does he covet the how at my back? He has rivers and seas where billows and breeze Boar riches…

Boy May Be Found With Song

Boy May Be Found with Song 2172 , A song, may find a lost boy A song may accomplish what a heart broken father and hundreds of friends have falled to do The simple words of "The Lost Child" sung in a sweet voice may fall upon the ear…

To Thine Own Self Be True

To Thine Own Self Be True Pakenham Beatty 3782 Pakenham Beatty was born in 1855 He has written several volumes-"To My Lady" 1878: "Three Women of the People 1881 and "Marcia a Tragedy" 1884 By thine own soul's law learn to live And if men thwart…

A National Event

A National Event 3497 A wedding in the White house! Such happenings are raro; The marriage bells seldom ring For such a great affair But merrily the bells ring out The gladsome news today "A nation's blessing on you both, Is what they…

There’Ll Come A Time Some Day

There'll Come a Time Some Day 3366 Why are you sad, papa, my darling Why do you look at me so strangely Have I done wrong tell me I pray? No, no, my child, you are an angel, There's not a heart purer than thine: That's why I fear some day…

The Lay Of The Lost Resturant

The Lay of the Lost Resturant 241 A wagon on a corner of the street: A swirl of dust, a whiff of frying meat; A stool that stands unsteady on its foot; A chophouse, with its oft-repeated stew: And coffee can we doubt its honest brew?- Are…

Soho

Soho 1344 I loved best her pretty eyes, Clearer than stars in any skies I loved her eyes for their dear lies Dance the jig! And ah! the ways, the ways she had Of driving a poor lover mad: It made a man's heart sad and glad Dance the jig! But…

Left Undone

Left Undone Margaret E Sangster 2024 It isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you've left undone Which gives you a bit of a heartache At the setting of the sun The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower…

Seven Years Old

SEVEN YEARS OLD 5312 I am seven years old to-day- Seven times one are seven; And Alice is four years older- Seven and four are eleven My lessons are so hard to learn, So full of figures and words; The numbers hum in my head like bees,…