Elizabethan days . ong after in she steamed,All painted green, with blazing lights;Run by a fresh kid from New YorkWho poked at me no end of slights. My old friends dropped me one by one,Twas as a red-haired show girl said—To think we onct rode in them slow things,But theyve deprived us of our bread. 13 On Christmas eve the taxi tookA girl and drummer out of town,And the flyer brought in Big Bill Gheen,Who phoned to send the taxi down. It didnt come in half an hour,He had to take my creaking hack;Up the hill I drove as best I could,On through the fog that hung so black. At Main street corner,
Elizabethan days . ong after in she steamed,All painted green, with blazing lights;Run by a fresh kid from New YorkWho poked at me no end of slights. My old friends dropped me one by one,Twas as a red-haired show girl said—To think we onct rode in them slow things,But theyve deprived us of our bread. 13 On Christmas eve the taxi tookA girl and drummer out of town,And the flyer brought in Big Bill Gheen,Who phoned to send the taxi down. It didnt come in half an hour,He had to take my creaking hack;Up the hill I drove as best I could,On through the fog that hung so black. At Main street corner, I just heard a roar,An awful crash and then a horses squeal,The taxi had come round the turn,And knocked us over and took off a wheel. As Bill Gheen crawled from out the wreck,He cursed me like a scab—He said hed sue me, and put me in jail,And then he climbed into the taxicab. Oh, Im afraid my driving days are done,Im much too old to start again,But if I ever take another ride,Its to the Port of Missing Men. 14. PATHWAYS OU crossed my path—Your footsteps in the sands of lifeCan never be effaced,By gales or tempests rife. I see you now, far, far away, Against my mental horizon, High are the rocks and ridges you have crossed, Many the miles that you have gone. There is a place where all paths meet,The Wayside Inn of Dreams Come True,Some never reach there all through life,I hope to get there and greet you. January 3, 1910. 15
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