Show FRIENDS OF LONG AGO I 1 sat one night beneath the maddas das glow and penned a verse on friends of long ago ali ah tell me where you are tonight I 1 wrote with tear dimmed eyes and choking tight ened throat my verses finished sped they oil 0 their way and they were published just the other day at Yester mom the mail maes mans tinkling ring awakened me from dreanie arbams of balmy spring my letter box was stuffed and rinsing owing oer A dozen missives lay upon pon the floor A narseless nar eless neless joy a wild ecstatic swept oer me as I 1 realized MY y old friends bill and ana may clyde jake ned ROY r and ruth rth and joe e and all other friends of long ago and 1 each and everyone sat chu 1 l n to write and tell their old colun where they were tonight the reverend Rev Rey rend haskins haskin boy long legged joe div gives es tango lessons now at ten per throw dear little may the shrinking sh g violet became a window smash ing suffragette while ragged ned who oft had naught to eat has b as just cleaned up a million bucks in wheat old jake who blacked my eye with fine fine effect now touches me by telegraph collect and clyde who wore long curls till he war eight has just knocked tut out the champt champ young kid and roy the smartest boy in in town by far now gathers nickles n a broadway car can poor bill I 1 feared that held hed go wrong some day hes in the senate now perhaps to stay while ruth huth my sweetheart once excuse these grins sends photos of her kids kias and six are twins EF EV mcintyre |