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Little Words Of Kindness

Little Words of Kindness 5695 A little word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere A word, a look, has crushed to earth Full many a budding flower, Which, had a smile…

I Love To Live

I Love to Live 844 said the prattling boy, As he gasly played with his new bought toy: And his merry laugh went echoing forth From a besom filled with joyous mirth ""I love to live,' said the stripling bold; 'I would toll for wealth I would…

When Shall We Meet Again?

When Shall We Meet Again? 2344 It was dark and dremal morn When from my bed I did rise, A-looking from the window I saw to my surprise A antior and his loving wife A-standing in the rain: He kirsed his only son and said When shall we…

Chimes Of Trinity

Chimes of Trinity 2653 In a city grand and gay, where the mighty throng hold sway Stands a church whose spire points toward the sky And down in the belfry towar oft the chimes have toll'd the hour And many saddened hearts were charmed while…

Mr Grumble

Mr Grumble 4227 Oh! Mr Grumble he did say As the leaves grew on the tree That he could do more work in one day Than his wife could do in three Oh! Mrs Grumble she did say That he must not grumble so: He might do the work in the house…

Faded Flowers

Faded Flowers 4685 The flowers I saw in the wild wood, Have since dropped their beautiful leaves, And many dear friends of my childhood Have slumbered for years in their graves But the bloom of the flower I remember, Though the similes…

Mary And The Robin Redbreast

Mary and the Robin Redbreast 5764 I saw a little maiden throw A crumb of bread to feed a robin; And she was more delighted--- so Delighted! - when he, bowing, bobbing Flew with the crumb of bread away, And "Thank you, Mary!" seemed to say And…

The Gray Spooky-Spook

The Gray Spooky-spook 3352 The gray Spooky-spook is a creature so weird That he frightens himself half to death, As he shrieks through the midnight and tugs at his beard While good folk lie holding their breath; And he faints dead away…

Please Spare That Old House

Please Spare That Old House 903 There's an old rustic est that stands in a square, For ninety-odd years that cot has stood there, Surrounded by trees and a fence that is worn, I's the home of my forefathers, there I was born But misfortune…

A Twentieth Century Man

A Twentieth Century Man 2656 Maud Muller on a summer's morn Heard the ta of an auto's en- She saw the Judge go whirling past xald Maul "he's going fast" And then she thought of the sighs and tears The Judge had caused her all these years it's…

The Thoughtless Farmer

The Thoughtless Farmer 5978 A Parody-Speech for a Boy A thoughtless farmer so they say, Carelessly threw his crops away; So far beyond his reach they flew, The farmer knew not what to do For in them was a season's work, Ills family's toil,…

The Old House At Home

The Old House at Home 3495 Oh, the old house at home, where my forefathers dwelt, Where a child at the feet of my mother I knelt; Whero she taught me the prayer, where she read me the page Which it infancy llans is the solace of age Oh,…

His Two Sweethearts

The Country Child’s Good-Night

The Country Child's Good-Night 1472 Good-Night Good-night, dear hills! So still you lie Against the bosom of the sky, I know you must be fast asleep, And all night long the stars will ke Their tender watches over you, So must I soon be…

A Song Of Sun And Summer

A SONG OF SUN AND SUMMER ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD 4153 Now shimmering waves of fairy bloom Across the meadows break and run, And all the good brown earth is glad Beneath the glory of the sun In bubbles blown of crystal sound The tinkling…

Barbara Frietchie

Barbara Frietchie JOHN G WHITTIER 3197 Barbara Frietohle was an aged lady of Frederick, Md, of German birth, but intensely patriotic In September, 1862, when Lee's army was on its way to Antietam, "Stonewall" Jackson's corps passed through…

Dixie’s Land

Dixie's Land 4743 I wish I was in de land ob cotton Old times dar am not forgotten, Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie land In Dixie land whar I was born in Early on one frosty mornin', Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie land Chorus Den…

A Question

A Question Mabel Mahin 1912 I study the faces of old women And ask myself a question, new and strange To my own features will there come a change? That look of meek submission? Am I, then, No different from the others? And again, I ask,…

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 2391 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light,…

The End

The End 1276 These are the last times, it plainly appears it plainly appears "A day with the Lord is a thousand years Man has six great days his work to do, And ther comes the Sabbath eternally truet O chikiren of time! look back in the…