Show JIigbgs and Sbadows Accomplishment I Eer one ard ever thc same Day after day Light and daikncss ashes and flame AI way alway Oh lor tho restlessness Oh for tho riilhlcBsncsb The whip and the scourge and the burning burn-ing lire Urged on ai Ihc will of a wild desire When will the storm and the tempest cease Weary 1 am When will time spirit sink down in peace When cornea lie calm 1 Whvn shall I cease lo sigh 1 Whon will my tears be diy Oh tell me ye spirits beyond the lido Have your longings will x mine be satisfied sat-isfied Spirits invoked by the power of prayer Whispered lo me Came troth time realms of limitless air With me to bo Sweet was each voice and low Nov 1 Limo secret know Deslro In Ibo bpsom h IB heaven sent Joy not Is In rest but accomplishment Lament of the Democratic Legislator I Im hero once more slow pacing Zions streetS Yet all Is changed since two short years migO Then 1 was It or part of It at least Fawned on made much of feted wined and dined From my llrst advent to the capital But now none meet or take mo by time hand Call me their friend or for my comfort care 13cn Fisher S has crawled Inlo his hole Leonard forgets tho friendship onco ho swore And Powers docs not seem to care a cent Joe Motibons beaming countenance I miss And Thorcsou keeps bolllcd up in Cache Thin blandi smooth face of Sannclo Soron x Is absent when I go to take a drink Which 1 must buy myself or go without No bright heudquarlcrs with their easy chairs And boxed of Havana ope8 their doors And bid mo he at home i am alone A stranger in time llirong I do not mourn For all the honors which wore on mo heaped Tho they woro many and my head quite swelled But I do miss and missing deeply sigh For ics enormous barrel with dollars mIlled Which meant so much indeed for moan mo-an friends Alas no morn Ill to my elbow thrust In It my willing bond Nor Is this all I stand and see some dashed Republican Go In and tuku Limo sweets which onco were mine While I In outer darkness hungry stand What fools wo were Indeed to kill tho goose That laid the golden cugl Better for us By far It would hoyo boon If wo had Mnt 15 en Frank Cannon lo the Sonata back Than to have liolU the matter off so long To make tIc nil his barrel up again Till vo had sinned away Mu day ot grace I And gave a good thing to our enemies By Inverse Ratio j So cheery 18 1 lime llrHigliti glow About this lima of year Tho coalman certainly thinks BO r For he profits the cheer II The brighter 1 Unit lie Blow I appear I I Tho broader grows hl s mlle For as your coal pile disappears Tjo bigger grows bis pile I I Must Havo Been Mistaken I thought I Jhcardyou kissing your i i Mwcclnenrl kitchenlast nlgHi said I the mlHlrcFS of tho honpo I You thought suld tho domestic did 11 Hound loud or rather soft like I Not very loud I I Youro mUttiknn It must have boon 4 time second girl mId her young man when I my beau kisses mc you can hear It clear outdoors Was Broke Just the Same WhalH the mailer my friend you look heartbroken Then my looksdeceive me My heart is all right Its my pockot thats broke His Aged Wife I knew her when hone fairer were than she Her eyes 1 Bright as tho twinkle of anevening star On her fair brow no wrinkle could you sec Nor ought that could her queenly bcauly mar I Where now full many a markInvoked by sorrow lies Long years of struggle and maternal care Have parsed Slnco that far day I held her in my Inns Told her she precious was tome as fair Tho much I dolcdon hcnfrcsh young charms And pleaded for the love the trust she gave at lasU Tho other eyes may gaze upon her face And when They note the silvered hair and furrowed 4 i rowed 1 brow No sign of beauty In her form may trace My sight goes backward othqru see but now And she Is just as fair tome as she wns then Sas the Merit of Truth Now what do Smith and Kelly do When they meet do YOU think First Kelly smiles South follows suit And then they take a drink I hear you say Why what Is that To sing of Sight arc you The theme this merit has 1 think It Is entirely true I Was not the Harvest Time I suppose you arc reaping your harvest har-vest he said to the Ico man I am culling Ice wag the reply my harvest will come after awhile Had Tried It Once And now Mrs Tlardman Ill tell you what well do she said Tho noxt UntO our husbands como homo full woll lock the ddor on tlicni nml loep thorn out all night J c i i You may rr you like but Ill hover try it was the reply Why nol It would serve them right Thats nil rlslit but 1 tried It once and ho took the ldow KliQllycdiacro2 5 the I street and struck for Bulle and it was six months before he got back again The River and the Desert It flows to the ocean In rivers and rills And Is swallowed up In time briny wave From the craggymounlaliifc past the hills And the arid plains to Us salty grave Born midst the snows on the craggy crest Of the mountain that pierces the sky It runs with a beauty all unexpressed Singing its song JS It passes by LiCe bounding life It proclaims for aye Life bounding life Ib Its only song I And it tells Its story day by day But It gives no life as it Hows along I Beside the flowers droop amid die And lie green grass withers beneath the sun I And naught but the sagebrush meets the eve As It ever has since thc world was begun be-gun I Silence and death and l the desert wild Death and sllenco alone arc rife When midst all puro and uiulelllod The river Hows with Its SOUK of life I In the crowded streets of a city far IIomolesH mid sorrowful many loam Weary despairing ever arc When time desert beckons them to a home f And the river slltss on of hnrvcHls grand Of meadows and orchards and waving gralim But tlll It flows thro1 a desert land I Singing Its sons of life In vain They are building well In our land today Amid with lavish hands pour out their II gold But thou ears arc deaf and they turn away From who 10 building would bring them I A lhommn fold A NonSentimental Request Tread lightly where my darling sleeps In whispers you must talk For If I she vakcs she always keeps Me all night on tho walk Of Course I left her vexed last night 1 know Nor found myself to blame Wo met tills morn npaln and lo 1 found her Just t the aume Told Him to Laf r l Hostood leaning up against a toIOphonp poltlooking up and down the street Tic looked ml If he came from the country and ho certainly was a stranger to tho city A policeman hurl ccn him standing I ill the sam place aa ho passed two or I three limes on his beat Slopping to him he I officer lld Cold work standing on time corner Isnl It Who aro you waiting for No ono as knows on Im Jnsl stand in here Whats your name and where arc you from asked the cop Im from time country and my name is Ruben now gol darn you laf A Common Complaint Not what I have now bothers me Nor what anothers gol From worry T am never free Oer what I have not got I Snowbirds r When the I song birds leave l us for softer 0 skies And nth days arc drear and the nights are long Whon tho snow oven meadow and inoun tain lies I Or Is I hurried by fitful gusts along When the mires burn bright on tho hearths at home H Is then when time tiny snowbirds come While as the snow Is each tiny breast Timid and shy as a cloistered nun With the warmest of down each bird Is dressed Like n Hying snowball every one Out In the mondows from morn till night Backward and forward they t take their lllght Where time brush Is thick by Iho brooklets side Is the cheerless homo that they seek at night IIet rlIt whnre MO llvlnc Ihincs abide Where Iho chill winds blow over snowfields snow-fields > while Out In the cheerless world alwny Strangers to warmth and a summers day Children Whiter and cheerless hours They follow his steps front the Icy I north They know not the beauties of leaves and lireriI Or the Mmo when the buds are bursting forth Yet who can say that they live In vain These liny subjects of Winters reign Bills Of allthings thai tho earth contains rhat life with worry fills Oer which mankind muHt work their S brains Theres nothing equals bills There arc bills of goodaanO bills to pay To dodge tbo Hjimo necdMFklll There mire bills llicrTilwaysthrow And every front yanLHlLr There 1 aroplay bllls ray billsbills of S cost S And likewise billa of faro i While thinking of them one gets lost So manifold they are Our leglslalors will convene And lo express Ihelr wills For sixty days they will bo seen There quarreling over bills Nor to mankind alone belongs This worry oft that kills The birds who cheer us with their songs I Have got to feed their bills Exeunt the Canteen 0 S The Hat has at hist gono for hAn h-An now eiich blessed defender Outside of army posts must go S When ho cots on u bender Tho csintoons of the boys In blue I No more th < lr hearts will cheer Theyll have to smuggle whisky in For theyll get no more beer I Where once they mot to sit und chat Therell bo a Bible station I Or a sorl of kindergarten for Time defenders of the Nation Such goodness Ihcy will all imbibe Where once batf l drinks wore given When one of tHem fails In tho strife Hell go right straight to heaven But listen place your army posts Miles off from town 01 city Or up amonrf the moiuitjun crags Have neither heartInor pity And In the deserts station them Or else It uNII be risky And In the amid youll only find Youll exchange beer Lor whisky S A Put Up Job r got a pointer bafc Und sound To purchase mining stocks And the next morning I was found Faul shelling out my rocks I smiled to sec the others soil What T know must go higher In ICHH time than It I lakes to tell I The pit was all on lire Up Jumped the stocks ton points or more Yet still they kept on belling I never In my life before Ilavo heard slick awful yolllug Whon thinking lhat time I swear I There Is no use denying I For ho who lipped me 1 declare Sold out whllo I was buying Since then when tip around mo fly I Uwav8 rcconnoilcr And no moro stocks will over buy On any brokers pointer Had Reasons for Looking Lonesome Who la that < quietlooking man sitting over yonder he asked Ho Is tho moSt lonesome man I have seen In many a U I I daY S S lavNo wonder waalho reply JJ1c Js a J I Democratic legislator Ho was hero last session Jt is enough to mako any maD look lonesome Wheels I Wheels wheels wonderful wheels J The World on its axis constantly reels Time stars and the sun end all things we know 5 1 AtwIrllng and whirling Uiro space over go p Wheels wheels wonderful wh elsA els-A man in his lifetime with nothing else deals S Morn noon and night and all the nightlong S long Theyro whlxalng and whirling andslng I Ins their song > I Wheels wheels nothing but wheels I 1 Till tho whole world Is dizzy and everything m every-thing reels I Theros no place at all where they don tj I turn it scorns And een when wo sleep theyre haunting our dreams1 S I They turn on time ocean they turn onlho land S Go tills way antI that Way on1 every hand But of all of tho wheels when nil haa been said Arc IheSvhccls that arc turning In every 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