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Song For Music

Song for Music CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE 2882 Why do I sing? For you, for you To you is due All praise that song can bring; My heart breaks into song at thought of you Why do I sigh? For you, for you To you I flew The while my breath did die; I…

Si Hubbard

SI Hubbard 5602 'Twas way last spring I think in May, When old Si Hubbard to re did say, "They say that a circus is coming to town; Let us go down and see the clown" So we sold all the hay, oat and corn, In fact we most cleaned out the…

Money Mnsk

Money Mnsk BENJAMIN T TAYLOR 2812 Ah, the buxom girls that helped the boys The nobler Helens of humbler Troys As they stripped the husks with rustling fold From elght rowed corn as vellow as gold By the candle light in pumpkin bowls, And…

Little Old Long Cabin In The Lane

Little Old Long Cabin in the Lane 6005 I am getting old and feeble now, I cannot work no more; I have laid the rusty-bladed hoe to rest; Old massa and old missus, they Are sleeping side by side, And their spirits now are roaming with the…

Song

SONG 2564 SWEET is the birth of love, and the awaking, The bashful dream, the faltering desire, The vision fair,- of all fair things partaking- The wonder, the communicable fire: Sweet, sweet the need to give and to obtain And sweet love's…

The City Child’s Good-Night

The City Child's Good-Night 1532 Good-night, dear, noisy, happy street! - The clanging bells and hurried feet, When I am safely tucked in bed And all the day-time thoughts are fled; Are just like music to my ears, And drive away the night-time…

In November

In November 505-6 When October's golden days Darken to November's haze You can sing a song of praise And a joyful endence raise If your step is spry But if with the nipping breeze You are lame in both your knees As the leaves…

The Two Angels

The Two Angles By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 648 Two angels, one of Life and one of Death, Passed o'er our village as the morning broke; The dawn was on their faces, and beneath The somber houses hearsed with plumes of smoke Their attitude…

The Telegram

The Telegram 966 I "Is this the telegraph office?" Asked a childish voice one day, As I noticed the click of my instrument With a message from far away As it commed I turned At my elbow Stood the merriest scrap of a boy, Whose childish…

Alexander

Alexander 2308 Look here Alexander I was only forlingling: When I said another coon my heart was All the day I think of no one else but you Honest, Alexander, won't you please belteve me It would break my heart in we, if you should leave…

Which Oae?

Which Oae? 4229 There were two little kittine, a black and a gras And grandmamma said with a frown: "Twiil never do to keep them both; the black one we had better drown Don't cry, my dear," to tiny Bess: "one kitten is nough to keep: Now…

The Reson I Left The Farm

"The Reson I Left the Farm 833 ""There's that speckled calf, do you see him? Well, he's a Christmas gift for you, Jim He's not been doing well this fall; He's got so he won't come when I call But you can have him for a Christmas gift, Go fetch…

Mary’s Prayer

Mary's Prayer 5919 That father rose in penitence: sweet thoughts within him stirred A yearning, warm desire to hear from God's own word Those prectous truthe she thus had llaped in ac Cents sweet and mild: He placed the Bible in her hand;…

The Lure Of The Thirst

THE Lure OF The Thirst 392 I've lost my duds, my home and job, My coin is burid deep; And jewels all with watch and fob Beneath the ashes sleep My beauty, too, has taken flight, Complexion's sadly marred; A ton of brick from topmost height…

Smile

Smile 955 You smile upon your friend today Today his jlis are over: You hearken to the lover's say And happy is the lover "Tis late to hearken, late to smile But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die forever…

The Better Land

The Better Land Mrs Hemans 2248 "I hear thee speak of the better land:- Thou call'st its children a happy band: Mother! oh, where is that radiant shore? Shall we not seek It, and weep no more? Is it where the flower of the orange blows,…

The Jolly Old Crow

L’Envoi

L'Envoi 3293 Absolve me, Prince; confession is all over But listen and take warning, oh, my lover You put to rout all dreams that may have been; You won the day, but 'tis not all to win; Guard well the fort, lest new dreams enter in

The Butcher’s Boy

The Butcher's Boy 2178 Not Readable Not Readable Not Readable Not Readable He went up stairs and the door he broke And he found her hanging there on a ropa; He took his knife and cut her down And on her bosom these lines were found!…

The Mystery Of Humor

The Mystery of Humor Washington Star 1227 When on the pave you chance to fall, With utter lack of grace, And turn your ankle as you sprawl, And, maybe, bruise your face, When angry tears spring in your eye And you are mad as sin, Oh, why…