This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...on crutches! And men who have triumphed and men who are sad, And lads who are eager and maids who are glad, Some going to honor and some to the bad, Meet the brave little woman on crutches. In days that are dismal, in days that are fair, I meet the brave woman on crutches, And a smile of contentment ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...on crutches! And men who have triumphed and men who are sad, And lads who are eager and maids who are glad, Some going to honor and some to the bad, Meet the brave little woman on crutches. In days that are dismal, in days that are fair, I meet the brave woman on crutches, And a smile of contentment forever is there, In the face of the woman on crutches, And oft when the fates have been cruel to me, When Doubt with her brood is where Courage should be, And my pathway seems hard, I am shamed when I see Her smiling away on her crutches. A thousand press past her and hurry away, Nor notice her there on her crutches Bound for some place where she toils through the day, With always a smile, on her crutches! And many a man who has dreaded defeat And looked in her face and gone bravely to meet What the future might yield of the bitter and sweet Owes a debt to the woman on crutches! WORLDLY GLORY OOME people long to be supreme In letters and in art, While golden heaps that glint and gleam Are dear to many a heart. Wealth, talent, wisdom, and renown I 'd scorn, to be once more The new boy in a little town, To strut and swell and soar. THE WIDOW'S COLT 'T'HE talk had long been goin' round concernin' Henry White, And how dad blazin' crazy he was gone on Widow Knight--And let me say right here that she was just as sweet a bit Of female sex as it has been my lot to look at yit. Why, lawzy Moses, when she smiled it seemed as though you just Was filled so full of gladness that you nearly had to bust; There wa' n't a girl around could hold a candle to her--and She owned two hundred acres of the choicest farmin' land. Well, Henry he went shyin" round the widow for a while, But she, somehow or other, did n't seem to like his style; Some said he merely...
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