Just Home and Love! the words are small

His moustache had a doleful droop,He hailed me in the slushy street.‘I’ve sold my shop,’ he said to me,Cupping his hand behind his ear.‘My deafness got so bad, you see,Folks had to shout to make me hear.’He sighed and sadly shook his head;The hand he gave was chill as ice.‘I sold out far too soon,’…

But in old Hymen’s jack-pot, it’s a most amazin’ thing,Them flowin’ locks jest disappeared like snow-balls in the Spring;Jest seemed to wilt an’ fade away like dead leaves in the Fall,An’ left old Chewed-ear balder than a white-washed cannon ball.Now Missis Chewed-ear Jenkins, that wuz Guinneyveer McGee,Wuz jest about as fine a draw as ever…

Hell-hot their hate, and venom-fanged their sneers,And one man spat on me and nursed a knife.And there was I, sore wounded and alone,I, the last living of my slaughtered band.Oh sinister the sky, and cold as stone!In one red laugh of horror reeled the land.And dazed and desperate I faced their spears,And like a flame…

Twice sixty hands her shoes to tie:Two soapy ones have I.The old Queen had of beds a score;A cot have I and ask no more.For when the last is said and doneOne can but die in one.The old Queen rightly thought that sheWas better than the likes o’ me;And yet I’m glad despite her graceI…

Prove the best of life is free,Sun and stars and sky and sea;Eager in your eyes to please,Proffer meadows, brooks and trees;Nature strives for your content,Never charging you a cent.Learn to love a garden gay,Flowers and fruit in rich array.Care for dogs and singing birds,Have for children cheery words.Find plain food and comfort areMore than…

Amid a million words he soughtThe sole one that would do.He wandered on from pub to pubYet never ceased to seekWith burning brain and pencil stubThe Word Unique.Said he: ‘I’ll nail it down or die.Oh Heaven help me, pray!’And then a heavy car dashed by,And he was in the way.They rushed him to the hospital,And…