Since everybody round here knows
A frown won’t scare ’em.
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AFTER all is said and done,
After all the sighing’s overAnd the laughter fades away,Then the cares that now beset usAnd the little wrongs that fret usWill diminish in their valueAs we sail across the bay.There will be no friends departed,There will be no heavy-hearted,There will be no looking backwardTo the joys of long ago;There will be no sad words spokenIn…
A friend is one who stands to share
He comes by chance, but stays by choice;Your praises he is quick to voice.No grievous fault or passing whimCan make an enemy of him.And though your need be great or small,His strength is yours throughout it all.No matter where your path may turnYour welfare is his chief concern.No matter what your dream may beHe prays…
It’s coming time for planting in that little patch of ground,
The sun is getting higher, and the skies above are blue,And I’m hungry for the garden, and I wish the war were through.But it’s tramp, tramp, tramp,And it’s never look behind,And when you see a stranger’s kids,Pretend that you are blind.The spring is coming back again, the birds begin to mate;The skies are full of…
IT isn’t the blue in the skies,
The light in a fair maiden’s eyes,My joy is far greater than these;You will pardon my arrogance please,And forgive the wide bulge in my brow,My hand I’ll permit you to seize,There’s another to welcome me now.Naught to me are political cries,Or Teddy’s or Taft’s policies;The charges of fraud or of lies,Or Wilson’s big stock of…
Think happy thoughts!
Refuse to let the trifling worries stay,Crowd them with thoughts of laughter from your mind.Think of the good, forget the bad you find,Think of the sun behind the clouds; the blueAnd not the gray skies that you view.Think of the kindness not the meanness shown,The true friends not the false ones you have known;The joy…
SHE wanted to be asked again,
She took a knife, and with the menShe helped to clean the fishes;She made her bed and swept the floor,She ran for water gayly,She tackled every menial chore,And pared potatoes daily.She wanted to be asked again,She ran to do the shopping,She toiled from early morn till tenAnd never thought of stopping;She got the meals and…