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I realize what made it hanker SO
To be in school that day: it surely meant
It loved her ! Yet, that mean, old teacher,
bent
On bossin' things-he did n't seem to know.
Sometimes I get to wishin' I might be
A little lamb like Mary's fond and true,
With Susan Sanderson as Mary, see?
We 'd play amidst the clover sweet with
dew,
And everywhere that she wast there 'd be me
And if she was n't, I'd be elsewhere, too.
LINES WROTE ON A SUMMER DAY WHILST THINKIN'
OF A SODA FOUNTAIN
WHEN I 'm a man I shalt not care to be
The President of these United States;
I 'dst rather be the drug-store clerk
that waits
On people at the soda fountain. He
Hast lots more first-class fun, it seems to me.
For whilst the public dost not get
rebates
Ma says she 'd gladly pay most any price
On soda, he secures it at cut rates,
For such a lay-out. And she certain
And lots of times, perchance, he gets it free !
that
Because there wast no servants in your
Of course, I know it must be pretty fine
flat
To hear the brass bands and the big
Is how you camest to call it "Paradise."
bass drums
Come marchin' by the White House all in
And pa says that if Eve had dressed the way
line
Our women do we shouldst have missed
And playin', See the Conquerin' Hero
the fate
Comes!
Of goin' forth into the world to stray,
And, yet, no presidential job in mine.
For she 'd be somewhere, still, inside the
The soda clerk's the one that gets the
gate
plums !
Delayin' things, as women dost to-day,
A-tryin' for to pin her hat on straight.
A FEW THOUGHTS THOUGHT ON HEARIN' FOLKS
FIND FAULT WITH THE WEATHER
I LOVE cold winter weather with the snow
A-driftin' on the walks I hast to clear,
And frost a-bitin' nose and cheek and
ear,
With the thermometer 'away below.' "
I also love the summer when it 's SO
Red hot that clothes next to you all
"adhere"
And everybody 's frantic, pretty near,
And sayin' things that hot folks do, you
know?
I love both seasons, but I wish I could
SONNET WROTE WHILST THINKIN' OF OUR FIRST
Enjoy them whilst they 're with us, for,
PARENTS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
you see,
O ADAM and O Eve! How very nice
It 's winter when the summer seems so good,
It must have been to live where you was
And summer when the winter pleases
at.
me.
No neighbors anywhere with whom to
But, somehow, I have never understood
spat,
Why either of them whilst it 's here'
Nor any one to give you free advice.
"n.g."
THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK
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This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.
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