Times Independent | 1929-07-25 | Page 7 | The Old Bum

T REMEMBER that old bum every daiy diy he used to come shiftless sh aveless collar gone take his coin and shuffle on and the coin he always got something if deserved or not when a mendicant be came for I 1 knew not whose the blame nad a woman made him this clad the lips that used to alss learned to scorn him had a son or a daughter been the one had perhaps some trusted friend proved a traitor in the end had some fortune that he knew faded like the morning dew or had he a pawn of sin clayed the game no man can win looked too long upon the glass or upon some painted lass was it he who broke the trust and had lost as traitors must now in beggary in shame had he but himself to blame well the old bum comes no more cringing at my ollace door but when tempters beckon me down the road of revelry when extravagance or pride beckon me to turn aside when the days temptations come I 1 remember that old bum 1929 dougla 0