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MARCH 29, 1907
The Commoner.
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MAKE A BLUFF
If there isn't any pleasure
Walts for you beside the. way
If there's not a thing to grin at
In your journey day by day,
If you've got excuse for kicking
And for stirring up a row,
Don't you do It! Don't you do it!
Just, be happy, anyhow.
Just be happy, just be happy;
Take the fiddle and the bow,
Snuggle it against your shoulder,' '
Limber up and let her go,
Till the world is full of music
And there's joy in every string
Till you get all outdoors laughing
And you make the echoes sing. -
.It's a duty you are owing
To .lie world to shake your feet,
And to lift j-our votce in singin'
Till the music fills the street;
If the world Is dark and gloomy
And you haven't, got a friend,
It's your duty to dissemble,
It's your duty to pretend.
If you meet the world a-grinnin
Then the world will grin at you,
You can laugh the clouds to flinders
Till the blue sky glimmers through;
If you just pretend you're happy,
With your vhole heart in the bluff,
Then, almost before you know t,
You'll be happy sure enough!
Houston
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OF MYSELF
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This only grant me, that my means may lie '
Too low for envy for contempt too high. - r
Some honor-.! would have, - -. -.-, ,
Not. from good-deeds, but good nlpne; . . j ,
The unknown are better than ill known;
Humor can ope the grave,
Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depend3
Not on the number but the choice of friends.
Books should, not business, entertain the light,
And sleep as undisturbed as death, the night
My house a cottage more
Than palace; and should fitting be .
For all my use, no luxury. . --
My garden painted o'er
With Nature's hand, not Art's; and pleasure yield,
Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Thus would I double my life's fading space; , J
For he that runs it well twice runs his race. ,
And in this true delight,
These unbought sports, this happy state,
I would not fear, nor wish, my fate;
But boldly say each night,
Tomorrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
Abraham Cowley.
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THE LASS BENEATH THE BONNET
When the triumphs and the conquests of the heart,,
are counted o'er, ;
When they tell of love that flourished in the days
of nevermore, .'
When they weigh the charms of loving and the
amours dwell upon,
Round whose tender recollections music echoes,-
roses run;
.When the world has worn one weary with its
flaneur and its flash, .
With its chain of charming maidens carrying
hearts with sweep and dash',
Then a vision looins before me and a song sounds
sweet and low
Ah, the lass beneath the bonnet that I loved so
v Jong ago!
The old-time striped sunbonnet, where she usedto
hide her face,
The sweet, old-fashioned lilacs that she carried
with such grace, . ."
The curls that used to dangle where her shoulders
sloped sp sweet, '
The little schoolgirl figure with its touch of grace?.,
petite, .
The little checkered apron and the skirt of High
land plaid " . .
Ah, the vision makes me merry and the echo makes
me sad,
For through tides of time that flow not another
lass, I know
Has smiled beneath a bonnet as she smiled so
long ago!
Time may take me far from mem'ry of that
Bchoolhouse on the hill,
The little woodland byroad that dipt down across
the rill.
The fairy fields of fancy where two sweethearts
pledged their vow,
But I would that I could travel back to wonder
of it now -n
Back to all that world of marvel when the valor
of the knight
Burned a spark within my spirit that her lips
had helped to light,
, And I'd face the dragon for her, let befall or we.U
or woe,
Just because beneath her bonnet she had loved
me long ago!
Baltimore Sun.
VICTORY
I meta kingly figure on the road,
.The cool, green road of peace that has no end.
I asked with eager haste, "Who art thou? Speak!"
He answered,' "I am Grief Endured, thy friend."
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