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Show THE OLD MAN SINGS. There's a wobble la the Jlnglo and a stumble la the meter, And the accent might bo clearer tad the volume be completer, And there might to much Improvement 'In tho trcia aud Intonation, And a polish might be added to the crude pio--' aanclatlon; But there's muatc. llko tho harper played beforo the ancient kings. When the old man ta&ca the fiddlo and gees feeling for tho strings s There ta laughter choked with tear-dropa -when .the old rasa slogs. And we form a ring about htm, and tee place htm In the mlddlo. And he hugs tip to his withered check tho poor, i old broken liuaie.. And a smile comes on his feature aa ho hears " 'thestringa'vtbratlon. ' " ' ' 'And be slDg.vtbe tonga of lohg ago with falter- ' tnglnlonitloot ''' ' '" And phantom from the distant past his broken Muatc brings. And troppUg strom" their duaty graves como lorif forgotten thtdir " . When-he tune the ancient aVtdle and the old maaHnKaV-"" -. W let USeXrotea man play on upon the broken 8Mlei ' "'"'. Aodwepteas'tirolirld to hear him. as ho altn thcraoml(Ulo ' ' Thaseufed 'tadny woddlng bells In all the masld surge-1 " Tteri we heaf their elamor amothercd by tho soand or tunerai 'dirtre.. 'Tls the atory1 'of his' Ufo tluio that la the muilf rtogs- ' 'y And erory life's a blind man', tune that's played on broken string And so we sit la alienee wbllo the old man dogs. B, W. Fota, la Yankee Ulado. ' |