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The Heaviest Cross
Philosophy and WisdomTHE 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
Historical Events and FiguresAddress 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
BandThe 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
War and ConflictThe 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
War and ConflictA 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
ReflectionsCHALLENGED
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
Urban LifeThe 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
ReflectionsTill 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
ReflectionsA 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
Hope and MotivationSalvation
-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?
Love and RomanceDID 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
DreamsConclusion
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
BeautyPUMPKIN 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
Love and RomanceThe 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
Friendship and CompanionshipSomebody
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
Holidays and CelebrationsAnnie 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
War and ConflictThe 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
Memories and NostalgiaTHE 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…