They ‘re big and ugly, cost a heap,
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We’ve been out to Pelletier’s
Quitting all the moods of menAnd been boys and girls again.We have romped through orchards blazing,Petted ponies gently grazing,Hidden in the hayloft’s spaces,And the queerest sort of placesThat are lost (and it’s a pity!)To the youngsters in the city.And the hired men have let usDrive their teams, and stopped to get usApples from the trees,…
LADY, when you say you’ll come
Tell us if there isn’t someWay to know if you are joshing?When you promise to be hereToiling at our tubs and wringers,And we think you are sincere,Tell us, do you cross your fingers?When we show you round our place,And you vow you’ll come and clean it,How, we ask you to your face,Can we know you…
The job will not make you, my boy;
Or riches or honor or joyOr add any weight to your name.You may fail or succeed where you are,May honestly serve or may rob;From the start to the endYour success will dependOn just what you make of your job.Don’t look on the job as the thingThat shall prove what you’re able to do;The job does…
If this were all of life we’ll know,
Were all there is to human toil,If death were really death,And never should the soul ariseA finer world to see,How foolish would our struggles seem,How grim the earth would be!If living were the whole of life,To end in seventy years,How pitiful its joys would seem!How idle all its tears!There’d be no faith to keep us…
I’m just the man to make things right,
Or wrestle on the floor and playThose rough and tumble games, but say!Just let him get an ache or pain,And start to whimper and complain,And from my side he’ll quickly fleeTo clamber on his mother’s knee.I’m good enough to be his horseAnd race with him along the course.I’m just the friend he wants each timeThere…
Be Cheerful
If you haven’t any money,What’s the difference?Let me ask you anyhow.Let the other fellow hurry,Let the other fellow worry,You won’t know a thing about itIn a hundred years from now.