Show S S 11 MotE Mora Truth Than Poetry Poetry 1 1 j I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I S ALL EVEN When I hunt bunt round to fine some Iome book bookIn S S In only bought last week I find some some some-frend frIend or neighbor took The volume that I seek S About the room I vainly glance S What time my work is s done 1 S I My books of fiction and romance 4 Are Ae Afe missing every one one S My My- Oxford Book Book of English Verse VerseS S Is J on fl my shelf no more mor I I. I miss It and I roundly cu cure curso e. e t who lives next door The Tho e min man 9 1 S My y Bartlett too has has taken wings S No longer can I quote I I J Familiarly the little things S That gifted poets wrote v t. t V I S SS S- S I have no books of of- reference reference S S With knowledge to provide S I S My Mv darkened mind and andall a all l the gents S Who Vho borrowed them have died 1 No more biographies have I It 1 t 5 Of or persons of renown V The foll folks s who took then them didn't die j But moved awa away from to town iK S S C r rj But still I find enough to read I I j When I Ican can get the time I v tv When Im I'm in bed at night I j feed teed feedOn teedS S it On tales of Jove and crime j. j I i For when a volume I 1 have lent S To these ungrateful crooks To other neighbors I h have ve s' s sent nt c And borrowed other books book S 5 c S 5 CALL DO DOESN'T WAKEN WAKEN THEM S I There now four four dogs in I I There are the th- White hite House Somo means has to be found found- to exercise the echoes around there 5 S S SS S Copyright 1923 1023 by tho Bell Syn Syndicate e Inc J I |