. Reminiscent rhymes, and other verse. ^. And brooks sing as they sally;.And every gentle word and deed Will make some burden lighter;And hearts will glow that grieve and bleed, Wliile yours will glow the brighter. BELATED LOYE There never yet was love unmixed With sorrow and with pain;Thro all our youth, a sweet torment And puzzle to the brain;A strange compound of joy and woe. Of mingled peace and strife;As oft a blessing, oft a curse,But like the measles, all the worse-. When coming late in THE OEXETEST BOY IX SCHOOL You stuck-iip city selioolboys, I m not writin now for you,But rath
. Reminiscent rhymes, and other verse. ^. And brooks sing as they sally;.And every gentle word and deed Will make some burden lighter;And hearts will glow that grieve and bleed, Wliile yours will glow the brighter. BELATED LOYE There never yet was love unmixed With sorrow and with pain;Thro all our youth, a sweet torment And puzzle to the brain;A strange compound of joy and woe. Of mingled peace and strife;As oft a blessing, oft a curse,But like the measles, all the worse-. When coming late in THE OEXETEST BOY IX SCHOOL You stuck-iip city selioolboys, I m not writin now for you,But rather for your bloomin^ dads, who in the country grew;Who the dee-strict school attended, wliere most were of one grade,And sexes of all sizes mixed, and studied, romped, and played;Where few were good, but most were bad, and as a general was always one well-knowm to be ^The Ornriest Boy in SchooP;AVho headed every plot and joke, and trick both mean and generally in his classes at the very foot he I write for tliose wliose memories familiar scenes , more or less, the Ornery Boy reflects tlie life of should your fatlier lam you for your boyish tricks or ask him for a statement of how lie did himself;For, wise as you may think you are, and very cute and were never in it with your dad, for all he looks so a corner of the village, long what was called a speakin more correctly, where the country cross-roads meet,Tli
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