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Naturally

Naturally 5605 "For each of these flowers I'll give you a kiss!" Cries out the adorably sweet little miss: But she pouts as I rush for the door "Are you running away from that?"says she: "No" I answer "There's only a doz- en, you see- I'm…

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme

The Major Breaks Into Rhyme 101 Not less stentorian than the angry surf that beats the shore of, Monterey Bay is the lyric defy urled by Major McLaughlin, of Santa Cruz and San Francisco, at Wallace Irwin of New York Though of world-wide…

Darky Free Methodist Song

Darky Free Methodist Song 4542 I pitched my tent in the wilderness Down by the riverside: I pitched my tent in the wilderness, Down by the riverside We'll end this warfare Down by the riverside: We'll end this warfare Down by the riverside I'm…

All The World To Me

All the World to Me 1477 I love you 'tis the simplest way The thing I feel to tell; Yet if I told it all the day, You'd never guess how well: You are my comfort and my light- My very life you seem: I think of you all day-all night "Tis…

Fingerprints

FINGERPRINTS CHARLTON LAWRENCE EDHOLM 5981 Five little fingers' print On walls, on chairs, on the pane, All through the house our monarch makes That sign and seal of his reign Five little fingers' print On mother's throat to her breast,…

The Old Arm Chair

The Old Arm Chair 2173 Not Readable Not Readable I sat and watch'd her many a day When her eyes grew dim, and her locka were grayi And I almost worship'd har when the smilef And turn'd from her utble to hiras her child Years roll'd on,…

Tippity House

Tippity House Denison Fay 4311 BABY sleeps in Tippity House, And rocks and rocks away She goes to bed at eleven o'clock To sleep for half the day Muvver is sitting and knitting Funny old comfy things; She keeps a foot on the rocker…

A Toast

A Toast 62 I would drink a toast "New Frisco," Our beautiful city of godl; The, health to her pretty maidens, And health to her gallants bold Here's health to her patient mothers, To her fathers old and gray; Here's a quaff to our dear old…

Toil

TOIL GRACE G BOSTWICK 4212 He sought for peace; he drifted here and there In many lands, and alien tongues he spoke; In vain upon his knees within a cell, The monastery's calm he did invoke And then at last when Time had filched his youth…

The Vampire City

THE VAMPIRE CITY Reginald Wright Kauffman 4321 Come with me into Babylon! Here to my woodland seat Over the miles she lures and smiles-the smile of the bitter-sweet; I hear the distant cadence, the siren-song she sings; I smell the incense…

Prayer For George Francis Key

Prayer for George Francis Key 16012 "Look down, Great God, this night defend, And us in safety keep, Thy Providential arnı extend, And guard us while we sleep; What e'er in thought or word or deed This day amiss I've…

The Sally Bride’s Lament

The Sally Bride's Lament 2712 'Twas early spring, the year was young The flowers they bloomed and the birds they sung And all were glad, but none so giad an Ii For ny love, a salior led, was nigh 'Tis scarce three months since we were wed…

Woodman, Spare That Tree

Woodman, Spare That Tree 3781 Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot There, woodman, let it stand; Thy ax shall harm…

He’s Had No Show

He's Had No Show 3446 Joe Reell 'ud set upon a ker Down to the groc'ry store, an' throw One leg right over t'other leg An' swear he'd never had no show "Oh, no," said Joe, "Hain't hed…

The Old Organist

The Old Organist 3196 The morning services were o'er And yet the people stayed While some remarked how wondrous well The old professor played His muste filled the village church Somehow as ne'er before: And c'en the choir were loath…

The Man With The Hoe

The Man With the Hoe EDWIN MARKHAM 4162 Written after seeing the painting by Millet) "God made man in His own image: In His own Image made He him"-Genesis Bowed with the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,…

A Definance

A Definance 834 I am 60 an' am healthy, an' I've got a grip like steagl; I walk my furrer Atiddy an' you won't git me to squeal; I'm out afield n'workin, at the very peep o' day: I take back seat f'r no one when it comesto pitchin' hay My…

Do Your Best

Do Your Best 1546 Do your best and leave the rest: Never mind to-morrow; He who works with happy zest Has no need to borrow Trouble from some future day True success will come his way Do your best and leave the rest! He who strives for…

The Car Of Salvation

No Parsing In Heaven

No Parsing in Heaven 4034 We are going we are going, To a home beyond the skin Where the helds are robed in beauty, And the sunlight never dies; Where the fount of joy is flowing In the valley green and fair; We shali dwell in love together,…