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IT’S one o’ my idees that men ain… They ain’t all built fer ploughin’… An’ they ain’t all made fer battli… There must be some of us on earth… Leastwise it strikes me that way—i…
When an old man gets to thinking o… He hears again the laughter of the… He isn’t counting money, and he is… He’s at home with friendly people… When he’s lived through all life’s…
He’s taken out his papers, an’ he’… He’s sworn to love the Stars and… An’ he’s done with dukes an’ princ… An’ he’s pledged himself to freedo… He’s bought himself a bit of groun…
BACK UP Old Age and Wrinkled… Come, Selfish Grown-Up, quit the… You Pessimist, depart! Now, Gloomy Gus and Doleful Frow… There is no room for you in town,
Oh, little girl with eyes of brown And smiles that fairly light the t… I wonder if you really know Just why it is we love you so, And why– with all the little girls
She was gentle, she was true, And her tender eyes of blue Seemed to mock the morning sunbeam… And the starlight of the night; And her laughter seemed to trill
I’m the bumps and bruises doctor; I’m the expert that they seek When their rough and tumble playin… Leaves a scar on leg or cheek. I’m the rapid, certain curer
If we were all alike, what a dread… No one would know which one was yo… We’d never have a 'Skinny’ or a '… An’ there wouldn’t be a sissy boy… An’ we’d all of us be pitchers whe…
It’s an easy world to live in if y… You never need to suffer, save the… If you’ll stay upon the level and… You will never lack the friendship… Life’s an easy road to travel if y…
We understand a lot of things we n… And it seems that to each other M… I don’t know how to say it, but si… We have learned that to be happy w… You can share your joys and pleasu…
This is the sort of a man was he: True when it hurt him a lot to be; Tight in a corner an’ knowin’ a li… Would have helped him out, but he… His freedom there in so cheap a wa…
TWe used to think her frivolous—y… parents are, A little quick to see the faults a… that mar The girl their son is fond of and…
The doctor leads a busy life, he w… Long hours he spends to help the o… He cannot call his time his own, n… His duties claim him through the n… And yet the doctor seems to be Go…
I’ve trod the links with many a ma… And played him club for club; ’Tis scarce a year since I began And I am still a dub. But this I’ve noticed as we stray…
I care not who the man may be, Nor how his tasks may fret him, Nor where he fares, nor how his ca… And troubles may beset him, If books have won the love of him,