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The Judgement
The Judgement
The Judge looked down, his face was grim,
He scratched his ear;
The gangster's moll looked up at him
With eyes of f…
The Key Of The Street
The Key Of The Street
"Miss Rosemary," I dourly said,
"Our balance verges on the red,
We must cut down our overhead.
One of the staff wil…
The Joy Of Being Poor
The Joy Of Being Poor
I
Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich;
But oh, the days when I was poor, a vagrant in a ditch! …
The Host
The Host
I never could imagine God:
I don't suppose I ever will.
Beside His altar fire I nod
With senile drowsiness but still
In …
The Home-Coming
The Home-Coming
My boy's come back; he's here at last;
He came home on a special train.
My longing and my ache are past,
My only son is b…
The Hearth-Stone
The Hearth-Stone
The leaves are sick and jaundiced, they
Drift down the air;
December's sky is sodden grey,
Dark with despair;
The Hat
The Hat
In city shop a hat I saw
That to my fancy seemed to strike,
I gave my wage to buy the straw,
And make myself a one the like.
The Healer
The Healer
"Tuberculosis should not be,"
The old professor said.
"If folks would hearken unto me
'Twould save a million dead.
Nay…
The Great Recall
The Great Recall
I've wearied of so many things
Adored in youthful days;
Music no more my spirit wings,
E'en when Master play.
Fo…
The Hand
The Hand
Throughout my life I see
A guiding hand;
The pitfalls set for me
Were grimly planned.
But always when and where
…
The God Of Common-Sense
The God Of Common-Sense
My Daddy used to wallop me for every small offense:
"Its takes a hair-brush back," said he, "to teach kids common-sense."
…
The Ghosts
The Ghosts
Said Lenin's ghost to Stalin's ghost:
"Mate with me in the Tomb;
Then day by day the rancid host
May gaze upon our doom.
The Fool
The Fool
"But it isn't playing the game," he said,
And he slammed his books away;
"The Latin and Greek I've got in my head
Will d…
The Farmer's Daughter
The Farmer's Daughter
The Rector met a little lass
Who led a heifer by a rope.
Said he: "Why don't you go to Mass?
Do you not want to ple…
The Enigma
The Enigma
The Sergeant of a Highland Reg-
Iment was drilling of his men;
With temper notably on edge
He blest them every now and then.
The Duel
The Duel
In Pat Mahoney's booze bazaar the fun was fast and free,
And Ragtime Billy spanked the baby grand;
While caroling a saucy song was Montr…
The Dream
The Dream
Said Will: "I'll stay and till the land."
Said Jack: "I'll sail the sea."
So one went forth kit-bag in hand,
The other ploughed…
The Decision
The Decision
Said she: 'Although my husband Jim
Is with his home content,
I never should have married him,
We are so different. <…
The Dauber
The Dauber
In stilly grove beside the sea
He mingles colours, measures space;
A bronze and breezy man is he,
Yet peace is…
The Cuckoo
The Cuckoo
No lyric line I ever penned
The praise this parasitic bird;
And what is more, I don't intend
To write a laudatory word,
…
The Convalescent
The Convalescent
. . . So I walked among the willows very quietly all night;
There was no moon at all, at all; no timid star alight;
There was no…
The Cow-Juice Cure
The Cow-Juice Cure
The clover was in blossom, an' the year was at the June,
When Flap-jack Billy hit the town, likewise O'Flynn's saloon.
The fro…
The Contented Man
The Contented Man
"How good God is to me," he said;
"For have I not a mansion tall,
With trees and lawns of velvet tread,
And happy helpe…
The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree
In the dark and damp of the alley cold,
Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold;
By a shopman dourly thrown outside;