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The Heaviest Cross

THE HEAVIEST CROSS Edgar M More 4851 It must be pitiful to bear great blame, All undeserved, sure that with open scorn, Or unclean jests of their own vileness born, Or covert sneers, vile lips repeat your name To know that honest men whom…

Address To A Mummy

Address to a Mummy Horace Smith 2245 And thou hast walked about how strange a story! In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago, When the Memronium was in all its glory And Time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles…

The Little German Home

The Little German Home 4533 I love to think about those days so full of fun and Joy That never will come back again to me; It was many, many years agone when but a little boy I lived there so happy, light, and free I used to play about all…

The Beautiful Hills

The Beautiful Hills 4574 The cities of yore that were reared in crime And renowned by the praise of seern, Went down in the tramp of old King Time To sleep with his gray haired years: But the beautiful hills rise bright and strong Thro…

A Swarm Of Bees

A swarm of Bees 2394 B hopeful B cheerful is happy, is kind, B busy of body It modest of mind It earnest B truthful Is firm, and B fair Of all Miss & Havior it sure and it ware B think ere you stumble for what may B fall: B truthful to…

Challenged

CHALLENGED 1987 She said that I couldn't, "Twas challenging too, For she meant, that I shouldn't When she said that I couldn't So tell me who he could do Show what he could do When she said that he couldn't? I would, wouldn't?

The Lesson

The Lesson Ella Wheeler Wilcox 91 When Thought, accustomed to appalling fact, Grow normal and regains its sway once more, Long buried Truth, within the hearts of men, Shall rise and roll away the Stone of self, And stand revealed in all its…

Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel CARLES HANSON TOWNE 4211 Eulenspiegel, merry lad, What a laughing life you had! Prank and jest were yours by right Or at noontide or at night, And the simple tricks you played On the spinster and the jade Only helped…

A Dramatic Lyric

A Dramatic Lyric 2972 SOMETIMES happens that the editors of IT a magazine receive contributions that they enjoy tremendously, but for one reason or another they cannot exactly use in the de- partment for which the matter was submit- ted…

Salvation

Salvation -Writter Bynner 14 They woke me Sunday, and I looked Out of my bed to see; And then the way I felt rebuked Suggested this to me: Even the crudest curbstone prayer, That rouses hearts anew, Is nearer to the crystal stair Than many…

Did He Sell His Vote?

DID HE SELL HIS VOTE? 35911 Her father was & candidate, His daughter was my love; Her face was morning light to me, Her eyes the stars above- Her father was a candidate; This much is worthy note- S he came to me, all smiles to state:…

Conclusion

Conclusion 838 I thought to pass away before, and yet allve I am; And in the fields all round I hear the bleating of the lamb How sadly I remember, rose the morning of the year! To die before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here It…

Pumpkin Pie

PUMPKIN PIE 4865 "Oh, the pumpkin pie is the ple for me, It's the beauty I greatly admire: 'Tis the ple that belongs to the land of the free, It in good for the child and its sire "Oh, the pumpkin pie is the freeman's pie And in it we…

The White Nove

The White Nove 2652 Shall I tell a story darling? I know one very old I For when I very was a little child I used to hear it told It is about a little boy And the pigeons which he sold His mother she was very poor And kept a rich man's…

Somebody

Somebody 16011 'Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, 'I'm glad to give;' Somebody fought…

Annie And Willie’s Prayer

Annie and Willie's Prayer 2664 'Twas the night before Christmas "Good night had been said And Annie and Willie had crept into bed There were tears on their pillows and tears in their And eyes, each little bosom was heaving with sighs For…

The Invariable Claim

The Invariable Claim 4647 No matter where a man may dwell, He'll make this statement as a rule: "It's warm by day, the truth to tell But then the nights are always cool" E'en on the arld, thirsting plain, Where blindly roves the panting…

The Return Of The Flag

THE RETURN OF THE FLAG 512,4 (Minna Irving in Leslie's Weekly) Resolutions directing the city clerk of Boston to restore to New Orleans the confederate flag which was taken by General Butler as a trophy of war when he took possession of…