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Harrison, Chuck Greif and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - - - POEMS OF LIFE - - - - - POEMS - OF LIFE - - By - KATHARINE FORREST HAMILL - - PHILADELPHIA - PETER REILLY, PUBLISHER - 133 N. THIRTEENTH STREET - 1915 - - COPYRIGHT 1915, BY PETER REILLY - PUBLISHED JULY, 1915 - - FIRST IMPRESSION - - - - - TO - - GRACE BARTLETT STRYKER - - - Words fail me when I strive to say - What you’ve meant to me--for so long a day - Hope--Inspiration--Sympathy. - Steadfast and true, whate’er might be. - O priv’lege rarest to the end - As in the past, to call you--_friend_. - - - AUTHOR’S NOTE - - -The poems contained within the following pages are _children of the -brain_ which at intervals obtruded their company, and which, such as -they are, at the solicitation of my friends, I have ventured to set -down. - -K. F. H. - - - - - CONTENTS - - -Dedication IX - -Author’s Note XI - - -POEMS OF LIFE. - Page - -Today 5 - -Jewels 6 - -Something Gone 7 - -A-Maying 8 - -Tribute 9 - -Good-Bye 10 - -The Wondrous Song 14 - -Miladi 17 - -The Something-my-life-has-missed 18 - -Contentment 20 - -Gone 21 - -To My Muse 22 - -Conception 24 - -Awakening 25 - -The House Built on Sands 26 - -To a Butterfly 28 - -A Fragment 29 - -Query 30 - -I Close Mine Eyes 32 - -Understanding 33 - -We Met in May 34 - -I Turn Me Down a Lighted Way 36 - -Counsel 37 - -Decision 39 - -You Never Guessed the Secret 40 - -The Light 42 - -Education 43 - -Re-Adjustment 44 - - -FROM “RHYMES FOR WEE SWEETHEARTS” - -When Grandmama Was Little 53 - -Harold’s Lament 55 - -Mrs. Spider 57 - -The Naughty Little Girl 58 - -On the Stair 60 - -The Land O’Dreams 61 - -The Middle of the Night 63 - -When Our Fathers Were Little Boys 65 - -Slumber Land 67 - -The New Brother 68 - - - - - POEMS OF LIFE - - - - - TO-DAY - - - The Yesterdays we might have called our own - But which, in our blindness, we let slip by, - Alas! they know not to return again, - Deep-buried doth each, within its grave, lie. - - But O belov’ed, now that we have made - The golden secret ours--to hold alway - We will not sorrow o’er departed hours-- - Just live in God’s great glorious--To-day! - - - - - JEWELS - - - Oh, not the gracious deeds your kindness knew, dear, - When shone my sun and skies were ever fair; - But the more precious sympathies you tendered - In sorrow’s hour. _Those_ my jewels rare - Which dearer, than off’ring wealth knows to proffer, - I’ll keep beside me whate’er may attend, - Nor render up so long as Life’s day lasteth,-- - Aye, and take with me, when shall plead its end. - - - - - SOMETHING GONE - - - You come to me--you take my hand, - You try to make me see - Things should become as they once were, - ’Twixt you and me. - - I listen to each word, you say, - I mark well ev’ry tone, - Only to find--you plead in vain,-- - There’s something gone. - - Something gone--that cannot come back again, - Tho’ most entreatingly you pray. - Yet, not mine the fault,--but yours alone, - It went away. - - - - - A-MAYING - - - We will go a-Maying dear, - Just you and I together, - Oh, the glory of God’s blossoming - Sunshiny weather! - Ev’ry ill we will forget, - Nor remember a regret, - For ’twill never do to fret - Whilst we are a-straying. - Only laughter ringing clear, - Waking echo far and near; - You and I so happy dear; - A-Maying! A-Maying! - - - - - TRIBUTE - - - To prove myself--aye, that’s my aim, - To prove myself for those - Who took me by the hand and held, - Nor cared if others chose - To notice or pass coldly by. - Thro’ stormiest of weather - Stood ever at my side, and said - We’ll face the world together! - - - - - GOOD-BYE - - - _She_ - - Good-bye, yes, I’ve decided - It’s best--it should not go _on_, - The quite delightful companionship - You and I, for some time, have known. - - No, do not try to dissuade me, - I’ve thought it most carefully o’er, - To arrive at but one conviction-- - We must see each other no more. - - - _He_ - - And you think to sever our friendship - By a mere putting away, - Letting the same, as it were, slip from us - Nor permitting me to say, - - A word in defence of its going - As if I’d no _right_ to share - In the matter of decision - I ask you,--Is it fair? - - - - - _She_ - - Man-like you refuse to _reason_ - To see it’s the only way, - That the step really should have been taken - Even _before_ to-day. - - With you ’tis quite diff’rent,--the matter,-- - You’ve priv’lege entire of your life; - But my freedom bows to restriction,-- - I am another man’s wife. - - - _He_ - - Yes, another man’s wife, but the honor - The Fates have conferred, it would seem - He doesn’t the quite appreciate,-- - At least, ’tis the knowledge I gleam. - - From observing his attitude towards you, - Which I’m sure,--and you can but agree, - Is not in the least in keeping with what - A husband’s towards a wife _should_ be. - - - - - _She_ - - And his failing you think permits me - Favor to accept at _your_ hands, - That the vow I took at the altar - Ceases to impose its demands. - - In sickness or health I promised, - “For better or worse”,--till the day, - He who gave should in his judgment - See fit to take away. - - - _He_ - - And you’ll let it bind you, that promise, - To a man who does not care; - Whose int’rest is the thoroughly selfish, - In whose secrets--you do not share, - - Listen, dear, the priv’lege of Mortals,-- - To get what we can out of life. - Free yourself from the bond that is irksome - And find happiness, as my wife. - - - - - _She_ - - Nay, not so, the rule of living - Holds faithful but to the one test; - Nor counts it--another’s transgression, - We must give of _ourselves_--our best. - - Of no use to appeal the exception, - The truth remains fix’ed alway, - So, good-bye, it _must_ be,--and, God bless you,-- - _There is nothing more to say_. - - - - - THE WONDROUS SONG - - - I longed to sing a wondrous song, - So wondrous, ’twould compel - The admiration unreserved - Of one and all as well. - - My pen I took in hand and strove - The magic words to write, - Alas! I could not of my Muse - Inspiration invite. - - She would not humor, tho’ I begged - Persistently and long - For the right metre--the right thought, - To best set down my song. - - ’Twas stately phrase I coveted, - The Laurel I would court-- - That of the world’s acknowledgment - Of unsurpass´ed thought. - - At length disheartened, my appeal - Knew, but to be denied, - I rose and to the window moved, - And marked the scene outside. - - All quiet stretched the land before, - Enwrapt in the soft haze - Which with such rare enchantment clothes - Autumn’s initial days. - - Idly my glance the expanse swept - Till it came to where lay - Outside the gate, the winding road - Leading to far-away. - - Then with the moment light was mine-- - Yet not complex its thought, - The inspiration which appealed - Was diff’rent, from that sought. - - The winding road--the simple theme-- - They who followed after-- - The toll it wrested of sad tears, - For short dole of laughter. - - The tranquil ways bidden farewell, - To seek of its unrest, - The truth alas! too oft brought home, - The paths forsook, were best. - - Could I but so compose a lay, - That one who heard might pause, - Nor continue to sacrifice - In an unrighteous cause. - - And keep his soul tho’ it should be - By cruelest conflict wrung, - I need not further supplicate-- - My wondrous song were sung. - - - - - MILADI - - - Miladi is so wonderful in furbelows and laces; - Miladi is so wonderful of such beguiling graces; - My poor faint heart goes pit-a-pat when she her Slave addresses - I wonder if how _much_ I love, Miladi guesses! - - Miladi is so wonderful, her dimples and her curls; - Miladi is so wonderful, my mind bewildered whirls; - Oh would some pow’r benign might make it plain for me to see - How much it is, in very truth, Miladi thinks of _me_. - - - - - THE SOMETHING MY LIFE HAS MISSED - - - It whispers in the murmur - Of the breezes passing by, - Pulsates in the azure - Of ev’ry flawless sky. - And oh! when twilight gathers - And its curtain gently falls, - The-something-my-life-has-missed - Calls and calls. - - Part of the Throng have found it, - The light within their eyes - Pleads of too great a radiance - The truth to disguise. - Their world is all they wish for, - Nor know they to implore - From off Destiny’s altar - Happiness more. - - It whispers in the murmur - Of the breezes passing by, - Pulsates in the azure - Of ev’ry flawless sky. - Some day I, too, shall know it - In all its ecstacy, - The-something-my-life-has-missed - Will come to me. - - - - - CONTENTMENT - - - To have you with me day by day - Watch you flitting to and fro, - In and out this room and that, - Up and down the stairs and lo! - With each turn mark you at - Some task benign--love bids you know. - - To have you with me day by day, - A tender, trusting, gracious self - Let the world treasure as it may, - To me, far dearer than its wealth - Your comradeship. Nor pleads the hour - In all God’s calendar so true, - With blessing richer for its dow’r - Than the rare one which gave me,--_you_. - - - - - GONE - - - I turn to find you, - But do not see-- - Who at my side I knew - Continually. - - Again, I hearken! - But do not hear, - Your voice answer mine - In tones so clear. - - Gone!--nevermore on earth - To see, to know, - And I still live on - God!--is it so? - - - - - TO MY MUSE - - - Let others bow before Wealth’s shrine, - And tribute render up - For the pleasures manifold it brings - To overflow Life’s cup. - But at your altar, Muse, I kneel - And reverential pray, - When darkness would have claimed my soul-- - You held its blight at bay. - - My sky of Life was overcast-- - Nor showed one patch of blue-- - Love had betrayed, and deep,--ah, deep! - My heart drank of its rue. - Where lo! a hand my shoulder pressed, - E’en as I would give up;-- - I turned,--your eyes looked into mine-- - There passed the cup. - - A music wonderful entranced - Which led to heights afar; - Ever it beckoned on, and on, - My guiding star. - The chains that hitherto had held,-- - How worthless proved their pow’r! - Instead of wishing Life to pass - I thanked God for each hour. - - _Let others bow before Wealth’s shrine, - And tribute render up - For the pleasures manifold it brings - To overflow Life’s cup. - But at your altar, Muse, I kneel - And reverential pray, - When darkness would have claimed my soul,-- - You held its blight at bay._ - - - - - CONCEPTION - - - To the many you give of your lighter vein - Laughter and gay repartee. - But the deeper side,--that which thinks things out, - You give to me. - - With the many you play Life’s make-believe game; - ’Tis a bantering light they see - When they look in your eyes, their earnest gaze - You save for me. - - The many accept you for what you would seem; - From such blundering am I free: - I know you for your own true self,--the self - You are to me. - - - - - AWAKENING - - - Oh, truth was mine before. I knew - The sun was gold; the skies of day were blue; - But the wonder of things, dear--_this_ never grew - Until into my life, God’s grace sent _you_. - - - - - THE HOUSE BUILT ON SANDS - - - We will go, he said, far, far away, - And a world make of our own. - A kingdom, such as never before - On land or sea, has been known. - - She smiled into his eyes,--and oh! the look - Of perfect trust she gave - As he gathered her close, vowing the while - Allegiance unto the grave. - - Well, they went away and made their world - As others had done before, - For the time being love blinding them - To the confine of its shore. - - They were all-in-all to each other, alone, - And it mattered not a whit, - That, in the scheme of things outside the pale, - They were not permitted to fit. - - Defiance they flung in the face of dissent! - Life,--was it not their right - To live it as they wanted to? - And they would, all warning despite. - - Why burden the pages by writing down - Their history in detail? - Was ever yet such a compact made - That was known _not_ to fail. - - ’Twas a question of time,--“_The house built on sands_” - From its moorings slipped away; - They who court Fate’s disfavor--or soon--or late, - “Pass under the rod” of her sway. - - - - - TO A BUTTERFLY - - - Butterfly, Butterfly, - Roaming thro’ the air-- - Flying here, flying there, - Flying--ev’rywhere. - Bending o’er the roses’ petals, - Drinking of their dew, - Then away--with quick dart-- - Cleaving towards the blue! - - Butterfly, Butterfly, - Roaming thro’ the air-- - If I, like you, had privilege, - To wander ev’rywhere. - I’d spread my wings and soar up! up! - Straight to Heav’n’s door-- - And when I got there Butterfly, - I’d roam no more! - - - - - A FRAGMENT - - - Flowers exquisite frequent thrive, - Hidden in the shade - Of some o’er-arching foliage - In a secluded glade. - - They need the shadow, not the sun, - To best perfect their bloom. - E’en so, life’s rarest thought expands - Oft, in its darkened room. - - - - - QUERY - - - You love me, you say, and want me - To become your own. - I believe you are in earnest now, - But,--as the years go on-- - - What do you think will happen! - Shall we travel side by side, - Lovers, and faithful companions, - Whatever may betide? - - So many have taken the venture, - But to find it turn out for the bad, - Who, at the beginning, just as much faith - In a different outcome had. - - That I’m fearful our fate might be like theirs,-- - Have we proof, think you, it will not? - A guarantee,--we shall never grow tired - And want to unfasten the knot? - - Tho’ my love is yours, ’twere far better, - Our paths separately should trend; - Than start together, and _then_ diverge, - Nor accomplish the journey’s end. - - - - - I CLOSE MINE EYES - - - I close mine eyes, and see you dear - As in the dear, dead days; - The tender grace, and strength of poise, - Marking you from the rest apart. - And oh! it seems as if I must - Enfold you to my heart. - - I close mine eyes, and see you dear - As in the dear, dead days; - The hair’s soft fall over the brow, - Within your eyes love’s ardent light, - It cannot be! it cannot be! - My day has turned to night. - - I close mine eyes, and see you dear - As in the dear, dead days; - Before love’s bitter aftermath - Whose penalty ’tis mine to know. - Oh! come to me from out its void! - _I need you so! I need you so._ - - - - - UNDERSTANDING - - - You have not spoken the word, dear, - But I know! I know! - It came to me of a-sudden - How you loved me so! - A glance which escaped unguarded, - The truth made plain. - I’ve hugged its memory to me - Over, and over again! - - You have not spoken the word, dear, - But I know! I know! - It came to me of a-sudden - How you loved me so! - A breath, with a catch in the taking,-- - And my world, you see, - Became changed,--for I love you, dear! - As you love me! - - - - - WE MET IN MAY - - - We met in May, I know you have forgotten, - Have long since put all thought of me away; - Yet in my heart the mem’ry ever lingers,-- - We met in May. - - Fragrant the air with redolence of blossom! - Matchless the sky of perfect, cloudless blue! - And oh! the music that the world was ringing-- - When I met you. - - Another has your fancy from me captured; - Her lot,--Fate’s tenderer impulse to know. - Whilst I, adown the years waiting the facing, - Alone, must go. - - No thought is mine save that bequeaths a blessing;-- - God grant your life be a long, happy day. - You have forgotten, but I must remember,-- - We met in May. - - - - - I TURN ME DOWN A LIGHTED WAY - - - I turn me down a lighted way - Where laughter rings and song floats out; - And, as I gain the happy throng, - All eagerly they flock about. - - I smile on this side, and on that, - Join the gay flow of repartee: - Yet, deep, deep down, within my heart - Echoes the endless moan for thee. - - I hark to him who compliments, - Within my eyes a sparkling light. - I play the game,--nor does he guess - Its fire has burned to ashes white. - - They count me merriest of all. - Not one who notes the deep-down sigh, - Who lists--Life’s tragic undertone,-- - _We’ve said good-bye--we’ve said good-bye_. - - - - - COUNSEL - - - Have you balked at the test you’ve been put to, - Are you weary of straining a point? - Is the fight too hard, the way too long? - Is there too much of sighing, too little of song? - Does ev’ry thing seem to be going wrong? - The scheme entire, as it were, out of joint? - - Then lend me an ear whilst I counsel awhile, - You must take a _fresh_ grip, my friend, - The game is yours if you’ll make it your own, - Defeat is a word that need never be known. - He who _sticks_ in his mount, _cannot_ be thrown, - Let his steed strive its best to that end. - - The sun goes down with the gloom of each night, - But it rises again with each morn, - And there’s so much of brightness to be gathered in, - Such wonderful happiness ours to win, - Throw despair to the winds, and anew begin, - Standing forth--the Mortal re-born! - - - - - DECISION - - - At times, I think, were we to talk it over - The something wanting in your life and mine, - We might arrive at clearer understanding - The cause of our unhappiness define. - - Yet, ever with the impulse strong upon me - Such course to follow out as for the best, - Comes swift the contradictory impression,-- - ’Twould useless be to put it to the test. - - That sympathy which pleads when souls are mated - Is the so woefully lacking,--’tis clear, - It could not prove aught else than effort wasted,-- - You are so far,--to try and draw you near. - - - - - YOU NEVER GUESSED THE SECRET - - - You never guessed the secret, - Nor have unto to-day. - The truth of it never reached you, - I hid it so well away. - The truth of how I loved you, - Yet spake not, for your sake; - Nor is it easy to put aside - What One so longs to take. - - The voice of you, in my musings, - The glance of you, in my dreams; - The feeling, you ever were near me, - Even now, how compelling it seems! - As if but to turn--were to see you; - To know the clasp of your hand; - Yet, I guarded the knowledge carefully, - And you did not understand. - - Still the thought of you hurt, and I hungered-- - Hungered, day and night, - It will count when the story is ended, - I was able to see aright. - You never guessed the secret, - Nor have unto to-day. - The truth of it never reached you, - I hid it so well away. - - - - - THE LIGHT - - - The light! the light! - For all is dark, - The light I pray, - My feet stumble, - I cannot find the way. - - The light! the light! - For all is dark, - Soon the night - Complete, will overtake - The light! the light! Oh! God--the light! - - - - - EDUCATION - - - You say you are shocked, my lady,--and so you ought to be. - A comedy, quite upon my soul, - To make me love you,--then fence about - When I demand only righteous toll. - - An innocent flirtation, you intended no harm,-- - Well, a lesson the trifler learns, - To keep a safe distance away from fire,-- - For the truth, not the lie, it burns. - - - - - RE-ADJUSTMENT - - - You beg of me to forgive you - The Other in your life. - She, who has for some time, I’ve discovered, - Been defrauding the wife. - - You avow you never loved her - That ’twas she led you along-- - And why hold one responsible - Who’s not guilty of a wrong? - - Won’t I forgive, as you urge me, - Forgive and try to forget? - Let the rest of your life be a token, - Of how sincere your regret. - - I must have time for my answer, - Some things take the breath-- - It seems to die, we need not - Always wait for death. - - I loved you so absolutely, - Thought you so completely my own; - I never questioned but that we meant - All in all to each other--alone. - - And you the while were betraying - The faith I held so dear, - Selling the same to another-- - No, do not come near. - - When its foundation becomes weakened, - A structure is undermined, - Nor can it at all times, be strengthened anew, - They who venture the effort, find. - - I will do my best to replace it-- - The foundation my trust hath known; - Should I fail--tho’ sincere my intention--tion-- - You must go on your way--alone. - - - - - FROM “RHYMES FOR WEE SWEETHEARTS” - - -Acknowledgment is made to Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Company for their -courtesy in granting permission to reprint in this volume verses from -“Rhymes for Wee Sweethearts.” - - - - - WHEN GRANDMAMA WAS LITTLE - - - When grandmama was little-- - It was years and years ago, - In what folks call, at this time, - The old-fashioned days, you know-- - Why, she had such a perfect time, - The best you ever saw: - We wish that we’d been little - Same time as grandmama. - - She tells us all about it, - And then, if we are good, - And just sit still and listen, - The way all children should, - And never interrupt a bit, - Or question ’bout the rest - Till she’s all through, she shows us - The things up in her chest. - - I can’t begin to tell you - The half of what is there: - The rag-dolls soiled and faded - That haven’t any hair, - And toys, and--oh, yes!--lady-dolls, - And, folded with the rest, - A little rose-bud muslin frock, - Her one-time very best. - - And there’s her picture taken - In this self-same gown, - With ruffles reaching to the waist - And panties showing down; - Hair parted in the middle; - Over each ear a curl: - Oh! but our grandmama was pretty! - When a little girl! - - - - - HAROLD’S LAMENT - - - Blamed if I see any fun - In being a boy, - With ev’rybody trying - Their hardest to annoy! - It’s “Harold” here, and “Harold” there - Until they have me sick - Of “Run along!”--“Don’t be slow!”-- - Or “Hurry up; be quick!” - - First some one sends me down-stairs, - I run with might and main; - Before I’m half-way there it’s turn - And run right up again! - And sure as I go out to play, - Or have a little fun, - I’m called straight in: there’s something else - A-waiting to be done! - - I just believe I’ll run away; - Pack all my things and go! - Can’t see the use of staying ’round - And being treated so! - For I just bet when they were small, - Not _one_ of them would do - Half of the errands and the things - That I’m expected to! - - - - - MRS. SPIDER - - - Brother Dick and I one day - Watched Mrs. Spider spin away: - My, how she spun, and spun, and spun, - Until she had her web all done! - Then, brother Dick, he said to me: - “Now, where can Mr. Spider be?” - We watched, but didn’t see him come, - So I guess he couldn’t have lived at home. - - - - - THE NAUGHTY LITTLE GIRL - - - When I’m so awf’ly naughty, - And - just - won’t - do - The very littlest tiny thing - That - I’m - told - to, - But kick and scream when any one - Attempts to come my way, - And press my fingers to my ears - To miss what they may say, - Why, then my mother says that I’m - As bad as bad can be; - She says she thinks it’s some one else - Instead - of - me. - She says she’s sure the little girl - She - used - to - know - Would never do the horrid things - That - hurt - her - so; - And though she doesn’t try to whip, - She looks so very sad - That somehow I just get ashamed - And can’t keep being bad: - I chase the naughty girl away - As far as far can be; - Then I run and kiss my mother, so - She’ll - know - I’m - me! - - - - - ON THE STAIR - - - A wee form nestles on the stair, - Two eyes betraying - The Sand-man has o’ertaken there - Wee steps delaying. - Too tired to mount the flight to bed, - Dear little tumbled golden head, - Just resting there a while instead, - Through dreamland straying. - - - - - THE LAND O’ DREAMS - - - All aboard for the Land o’ Dreams! - (One for the money and two for the show!) - All aboard for the Land o’ Dreams! - (Three to make ready and four to go!) - The passenger’s late, - But the cars all wait-- - Just hark to the brakeman’s cries: - “All aboard for the Land o’ Dreams!”-- - And the tickets are drowsy eyes. - - - II - - All aboard for the Land o’ Dreams! - (One for the money and two for the show!) - All aboard for the Land o’ Dreams! - (Three to make ready and four to go!) - The whistles sound, - And the wheels go ’round, - And the bright green fields slip past; - The passenger’s here and the track is clear - To the Land o’ Dreams at last! - - - - - THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT - - - Sometimes at night I get awake - And all’s so dark and still-- - Why I’m ’bout scared even to take - A deep-down breath, until - I peer ’round first and try to see - If ev’rything’s all right! - For the terriblest things can be,-- - The Middle of the Night. - - I want so much to cry right out-- - But I am awful ’fraid! - ’Cause, if those black things _were_ about, - They’d hear the noise I made. - And mother sleeps so very sound, - She mightn’t hear, you see, - And then they’d make a great big bound - And run away with me. - - So I lie just still as I can-- - My heart a-thumping so! - Wishing I were a great big man, - So I’d not scare, you know. - When oh!--the covers pull away - And just as I begin - To scream--why, I hear mother say - It’s her tucking them in! - - - - - WHEN OUR FATHERS WERE LITTLE BOYS - - - When our fathers were little boys, - Before they grew to men, - I wonder did they make a noise - Or have a good time then? - I wonder did they ever fight - And punch each other’s nose? - Or if they always did just right - And never spoiled their clothes. - - I wonder did their mothers scold - Sometimes and make them cry? - I wonder if they ever told - A teeny-weeny lie? - I wonder if they ever had - Such dirty hands and face? - I wonder were they ever mad - And banged things ’round the place? - - I wonder did they ever run - To fires hard as they could? - Or if they called it better fun - To sit still and be good? - I wonder _were_ they ever small - And kept back in the shade? - Or didn’t they have to grow at all, - But just come ready made? - - - - - SLUMBER LAND - - - To all: “Good-night!” - Two eyes shut tight - And baby’s bound for Slumber, - The land where all tired children go, - The land where white dream-flowers grow - Beyond my art to number: - Winks - And blinks - And nods all past-- - Mother’s arms are sure and fast, - Off to Slumber Land at last, - The moonlit Land of Slumber! - - - - - THE NEW BROTHER - - - We’ve got a new kid in our house; - And it ’bout gives me a fit, - The fuss that ev’rybody is - A-making over it. - All ’long I’ve been the pet, you see, - ’Twas _me_ they tried to please - But now, this other fellow has - Them all upon their knees! - - He’s just about the ugliest! - And really doesn’t seem - Able to do another thing - But double up and scream. - He’s got no teeth, he’s got no hair,-- - Worst curiosity! - I’d like some one to tell me _why_ - He counts for more than me! - - - - - - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Poems of Life, by Katharine Forrest Hamill - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF LIFE *** - -***** This file should be named 51513-0.txt or 51513-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/1/51513/ - -Produced by Larry B. 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