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The Bachelor’s Soliloquy

The Bachelor's Soliloquy 2435 To wed or not to wed; That is the question Whether 'tis better To remain single, And disappoint a few women- For a time; Or marry, And disappoint one woman- For life?

Maud Mailer’s Bike

Maud Mailer's Bike 3362 Maud Muller on a summer's day Maunted her wheel and rode away Beneath her blue cap glowed a wealth Of large red treckles and rat rate health Ringing, she rode, and her merry glen Frightened a sparrow from his free:…

Green Grows The Laurel

Green Grows the Laurel 84-7 I once list a true love, but now I have honel She has gone und left me, I live all alone I live all alone, and contented I'll be Till she finds another one better than ma Chorus- Green grows the laurel, clinging…

Rock Of Ages

Rock of Ages 116-1 "Rock of ages, cleft for ine" Thoughtlessly & maiden sung Fell the words inconsciously, From her girlish gleeful longue: Sang as little children sing Sang va sing the birds in June, Fell the words like light leaves down,…

Gathering Home

Gathering Home 4738 Up to the beautiful giver of life, Gathering home, gathering home Up to the dwelling where cometh no strife T he dear ones are gathering home Chorus- Gathering home, gathering home, Never to mrrow ingre, never to roam,…

Three Perished In The Snow

Three Perished in the Snow 9011 Twas on a stormy winter's night The snow was falling fast A mother and two little babes, Wero wand'ring through the blast; Still clinging to their mother's breast, The little ones would cry, "Please, mamma,…

Skipper Ireson’s Ride

Skipper Ireson's Ride 2873 BY John Greenleaf Whittier Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme On Apulentus' Golden Ass, Or one-eved Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human hack, Islam's prophet…

Hope

Hope By Mabel Porter Pitts 51 Out somewhere from the darkness of the East Three travelers come; Content in what they fail to understand Each moves across the heat-veiled desert sand As though he held a chart within his hand; Their fervor, by…

At The Table

AT THE TABLE 5537 The years have sped since irst I led You to the table, le, deat And you sat over there alone And I sat smiling here A year or two flew past, and you No longer sat alone, A little one was in your arms, Your darling and…

The Chuck Wagon

THE CHUCK WAGON 2766 A cowpuncher's cafay A It is that-o-way, An' we sulke it kerslam 'bout three times a day: When cook rells, "Come git it!" He don't have to plead, "Hi yip! all you logles, come gather your feed!"

Jesus Seat

Jesus Seat 5918 Far far away o'er the deer, blue sea Lived a man who was as kind as kind could be He loved Hitle children, and spread every day A table from which none went hungry away Poor children came in from alley and street With rags…

The Old Kitchen Floor

The Old Kitchen Floor 3308 Far back in my musings my thoughts have been cast, To the spot where the hours of my childhood wero passed I loved ali its rooms, to the pantry and hall, But that blessed old kitchen was dearer than all Its chairs…

The City Child’s Good-Night

The City Child's Good-Night 1471 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 flee Are just like music to my ears And drive away the night-time…

Reading The Appointments

Reading the Appointments 4532 I was sitting in a wing slip, near the stern rail, When the Bishop oarne in softly, with a face rene but pale, And a silence indescribably pathetic in its power, Such as might have reigned in heaven then that ''space…

Blue Eyed Mary

Blue Eyed Mary 1703 "Come, tell me, blue eyed stranger Say whither dost thou roam; O'er this wide world a ranger Hast thou no friends or home? "They called me blue eyed Mary When friends and fortune smiled: But, ah, how fortuner vary!…

Love Life

Love Life 3702 Oh Love that will not let me go I rest my weary soul in thee, I give thee back the ife I owe That in thy ocean depths its now May richer, fuller be Oh light, that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to thee…

Grin And Bear It

Grin and Bear It 2823 My Uncle Si, a strange old chap, Would never fret or worry: He jogged along good naturedly, An' didn't rush or hurry Remember when I'd stub my toe He'd say: "My boy, don't care-it Soon'll get all well again- Just grin…

Isle Of Beauty

Isle of Beauty 2345 Shades of evening close not o'er us Leave our lonely barque awhile: Morn, alas, will not restore Da Yonder oim and distant isle Still my fancy can discover Sunny spots where friends may dwell; Darker shadows round…

A Wish

A Wish 518-2 "Be my fairy, mother; Grant me a wish to-day,---- Something as well in the sunshine As when the rain drops play" "And if I were a fairy, With but one wish to spare, What should I give thee, darling, To quiet thine earnest prayer?" "I'd…

Folded Hands

Folded Hands 3991 Pale, withered hands, that more than four-score yearn Had wrought for others, soothed the hurt of Rocked children's cradles, cessed the fever's smart, Dropped balm of lovin many an aching heart, Now attrien folded like…