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How often do I wish I were
What people call a character;
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If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
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Why need we newer arms invent,
Poor peoples to destroy?
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I ran a nail into my hand,
The wound was hard to heal;
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How grand the human race would be
If every man would wear a kilt,
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I'm sitting by the fire tonight,
The cat purrs on the rug;
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They dumped it on the lonely road,
Then like a streak they sped;
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Because I was a woman lone
And had of friends so few,
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The chapel looms against the sky,
Above the vine-clad shelves,
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Oh I am neither rich nor poor,
No worker I dispoil;
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Don't jeer because we celebrate
Armistice Day,
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When I blink sunshine in my eyes
And hail the amber morn,
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From torrid heat to frigid cold
I've rovered land and sea;
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The songs I made from joy of earth
In wanton wandering,
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I never thought that Bill could say
A proper prayer;
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Of bosom friends I've had but seven,
Despite my years are ripe;
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They must not wed the Doctor said,
For they were far from strong,
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The Princess was of ancient line,
Of royal race was she;
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Drunk or sober Uncle Jim
Played the boy;
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Bob Briggs went in for Government,
And helps to run the State;
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Dick's dead! It was the Polack guard
Put powdered glass into his cage
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Although you deem it far from nice,
And it perchance may hurt you,
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Said I to Pain: "You would not dare
Do ill to me."
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I opened wide the bath-room door,
And all at once switched on the light,
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Said Seeker of the skies to me:
"Behold yon starry host ashine!
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Would it be loss or gain
To hapless human-kind
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In the gay, gleamy morn I adore to go walking,
And oh what sweet people I meet on my way!
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Could Fate ordain a lot for me
Beyond all human ills,
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No matter how he toil and strive
The fate of every man alive
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When day is done I steal away
To fold my hands in rest,
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I like to look at fishermen
And oftentimes I wish
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Said I: "See yon vast heaven shine,--
What earthly sight diviner?
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I sing of starry dreams come true,
Of hopes fulfilled;
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"Lord God of Hosts," the people pray,
"Make strong our arms that we may slay
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A passion to be free
Has ever mastered me;
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While for me gapes the greedy grave
It don't make sense
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I sat her in her baby chair,
And set upon its tray
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Oh happy he who cannot see
With scientific eyes;
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I have done with love and lust,
I reck not for gold or fame;
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I will not fight: though proud of pith
I hold no one worth striving with;
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Full well I trow that when I die
Down drops the curtain;
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When I am dead I will not care
Forever more,
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Because my teeth are feebly few
I cannot bolt my grub like you,
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The height of wisdom seems to me
That of a child;
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I have no brief for gambling, nay
The notion I express
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A very humble pen I ply
Beneath a cottage thatch;
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My Louis loved me oh so well
And spiered me for his wife;
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School yourself to savour most
Joys that have but little cost;
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The leaves are falling one and one,
Each like a life to me,
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Lord, let me live, that more and more
Your wonder world I may adore;
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When I was young I was too proud
To wheel my daughter in her pram.
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They told to Marie Antoinette:
"The beggers at your gate
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Each time that I switch on the light
A Miracle it seems to me
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Mud is Beauty in the making,
Mud is melody awaking;
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While I make rhymes my brother John
Makes shiny shoes which dames try on,
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From off my calendar today
A leaf I tear;
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When I was small the Lord appeared
Unto my mental eye
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I bought a cuckoo clock
And glad was I
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Some poets sing of scenery;
Some to fair maids make sonnets sweet.
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'Tis true my garments threadbare are,
And sorry poor I seem;
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When I am old and worse for wear
I want to buy a rocking-chair,
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For all good friends who care to read,
here let me lyre my living creed . . .
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I've made my Will. I don't believe
In luxury and wealth;
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My neighbour has a field of wheat
And I a rood of vine;
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I could have sold him up because
His rent was long past due;
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I guess folks think I'm mighty dumb
Since Jack and Jim and Joe
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I had a friend, a breezy friend
I liked an awful lot;
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Is it because I'm bent and grey,
Though wearing rather well,
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The harridan who holds the inn
At which I toss a pot,
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What man has not betrayed
Some sacred trust?
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Mother focused with a frown
The part of me where I sit down.
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If I could practise what I preach,
Of fellows there would few be finer;
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I greet the challenge of the dawn
With weary, bleary eyes;
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When young I was an Atheist,
Yea, pompous as a pigeon
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The red-roofed house of dream design
Looks three ways on the sea;
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I looked down on a daisied lawn
To where a host of tiny eyes
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I envy not those gay galoots
Who count on dying in their boots;
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By parents I would not be pinned,
Nor in my home abide,
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I stood beside the silken rope,
Five dollars in my hand,
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What I seek far yet seldom find
Is large simplicity of mind
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You say I am the slave of Fate
Bound by unalterable laws.
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This is the end of all my ways,
My wanderings on earth,
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'Twas in a pub in Battersea
They call the "Rose and Crown,"
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"This bunch of violets," he said,
"Is for my daughter dear.
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Said a monkey unto me:
"How I'm glad I am not you!
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My days are haunted by the thought
Of men in coils of Justice caught
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In stilly grove beside the sea
He mingles colours, measures space;
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Think not because you raise
A gleaming sword,
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Because I have no garden and
No pence to buy,
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"Tuberculosis should not be,"
The old professor said.
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The leaves are sick and jaundiced, they
Drift down the air;
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I never could imagine God:
I don't suppose I ever will.
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If we could roll back History
A century, let's say,
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I've learned--Of all the friends I've won
Dame Nature is the best,
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Italian people peaceful are,--
Let it be to their credit.
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When we might make with happy heart
This world a paradise,
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The portrait there above my bed
They tell me is a work of art;
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Because I've come to eighty odd,
I must prepare to meet you, God.
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I'm just an ordinary chap
Who comes home to his tea,
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Because back home in Tennessee
I was a champeen shot,
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It is not power and fame
That make success;
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So now I take a bitter road
Whereon no bourne I see,
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Because I've eighty years and odd,
And darkling is my day,
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I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame,
Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell,
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If fortune had not granted me
To suck the Muse's teats,
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I don't think men of eighty odd
Should let a surgeon operate;
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The sheep are in the silver wood,
The cows are in the broom;
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"Where is your little boy to-day?"
I asked her at the gate.
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Up from the evil day
Of wattle and of woad,
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Although I have a car of class,
A limousine,
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That Tom was poor was sure a pity,
Such guts for learning had the lad;
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Oh if it were not for my wife
And family increase,
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To have a business of my own
With toil and tears,
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You've heard of Violet de Vere, strip-teaser of renown,
Whose sitting-base out-faired the face of any girl in town;
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Because my eyes were none to bright
Strong spectacles I bought,
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Her smile ineffably is sweet,
Devinely she is slim;
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I would rather drink than eat,
And though I superbly sup,
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For failure I was well equipped
And should have come to grief,
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When twenty-one I loved to dream,
And was to loafing well inclined;
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