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When You Have Christ For A Friend

When You Have Christ for a Friend 849 Why do you feel discouraged? Why are you down-hearted and sad?" God's watchful care never falletin; In that thouglit rejuler, be glad For as sure as storm-clouds threaten There is one who w will defend…

When The Frost Is On The Pankin

When the Frost is on the Pankin 893 BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock; And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin turkey-cock And the clackin' of the guineas, and the cluckin'…
The Sale 967 Just inten moment, young friends, and a story I'll unfold, A marvelous tale of a wonderful sale of a noble bady of old How her hand and her heart in an auction mart, her soul and body she sold, 'Twas in the king's highway so…

He Died And He Didn’T

He Died and He Didn't 958 Mr Wilkins had a dollar, so he said he guessed he'd pay A little sum he'd borrowed from a gentleman named Gray; Then Gray he took that dollar, and be sald, "It seems to me I'd better pay that little debt I owe to…

The Common Failing

The Common Failing 83-1 How mad begins we get when one begins To pame our faults and jeer them We love to overlook our sins But hate to overhear them

Thnking It Over

Thinking It Over 1985 HE I rather like her style; in truth Her looks and ways apeal to me; I seem to please her fancy, too I wonder what her age may he? SHE He seems to be inclined to look With more than friendliness…

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…

White Chrysanthemums

WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS 4101 Born of the clouds and darkness, Of the frost and early snow: When the summer blooms have faded, The beautiful Christ flowers blow All through the budding springtime, All through the summer's heat, All through…

The Brownies’ Thanksgiving Game

THE BROWNIES' THANKSGIVING GAME 4261 Sometimes excitement ruled the band Till every Brownie took a hand, And pulled and pushed about and ran To interfere with some one's plan Still keeping this in mind the while The ball was somewhere…

Sorrow

Sorrow 1656 The sorrow that nobody mentions, The sorrow no ons may share Is the sorrow the dear Lord giveth His sweetest, tenderest care He places his hand on the wellspring The quivering lipe refrain orth in denance And the eyes mils…

Love’s Confessions

LOVE'S CONFESSIONS Ella Wheeler Wilcox 3291 How shall a maid make answer to a man Who summons her, by love's supreme decree The intricate strange ways that love began? So many streams from that great fountain ran, To open her whole heart,…

Almost Home

Almost Home F H Stauffer 3306 "Are we almost home?"י Ah, yes, wan pilgrim! Wanderer on the shores of Time, With shattered staff And beard all white with tline- Journeying to the Mecca of the soul; At first the cradle and at last the goal,…

An Advantage

An Advantage 4094 An Advantage you N When a pretty young miss has a "cast" in her eye It greatly increases her "chances," Because, you must know-if you study the "Why?"- It assists her in throwing her glances

A Lazy Man’s Letter

A Lazy Man's Letter 4907 I'm in a 10der mood today & feel postio, fun I'll just - off a line & send it off # U I'm sorry you've been&O Don't B disconsolst long: But buar your ills with 49de, & they won't seem so grs

Walled In

Walled in 5111 When Johnnie went off to Yale, to Yale, He was a parlor boarder: They sent him down to Eli Town To study law and order They told him not to study much Because he was so frail- I wonder what his ma-mah will say When Johnnie…

Why Should We Mourn?

Why Should We Mourn? 3199 Why should we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? "Tis but the volce that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms Are we not tending upward too As fast as time can move? Nor should we wish the…

Bird With Bosom Red

BIRD WITH BOSOM RED 5311 When the winds of winter blow, And the air is thick with snow, Drifting over hill and hollow, Whitening all the naked trees Then the bluebird and the jay And the oriole fly away Where the bobolink and swallow…

Simple Request

Simple Request 1479 I'm just as reason'ble a man As any can be: I don't see how sane people can Find any fault with me I try my best to keep the rest From goin' quite astray- An' all I ask in life is jest To have things my own way! It's…

Society At Red Dog

Society at Red Dog 581 Since "blue bloods" have their Red Book, Red men should fashion, too, A Red Book which, without a hitch, Will tett the world "Who's Sloux" Nixon Watterman,

The Sun Bright Clime

The Sun Bright Clime 1653 Have you heard, have you heard, of that sun bright clime Undimined by sorrow, unhurt by time, Where nae hath Where the sys is no po power o'er the fadeless frame, fire, and the heart la name? Have you heard of that…