A Penny Whistle; Together With The Babette Ballads - nouveau livre

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In Hospital (In a California hospital the nurses read the news of the day to the patients.) Come hither, nurse, and hold my hand. I recently have been trepanned, And am, as a result of it, Not feeling just exactly fit. Come, tell me all the latest news; 'Twill dissipate my present blues. Recite the doings of the day, And drive dull pain and care away. Has some one hanged his erring wife, Or slain her with a butcher knife? Has some rejected suitor shot The moody maid who loved him not? Some woman, in a jealous fit, Cut up her husband bit by bit? Relate the murders east and west? Those in New Hampshire are the best. There's nothing like a first-class crime To pass the heavy-hanging time. Details of grewsome murder plots Cheer countless convalescents' cots. A job sufficiently outre Will liven up the dullest day. So haste thee, nurse, and read to me The care-dispelling potpourri. "Such Is Life" "Such is life I" the young man cries, Who has yet to know it. "Such is life!" the old man sighs, When about to blow it. Life is but "a fleeting show," In Tom Moore's conclusion; Life it but a vale of woe, Given for man's illusion. But 'tis not a fleeting show; It is deeper, denser. Would you really like to know? Hark to Herbert Spencer: "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Such is life! When overwrought, Meditate upon it. Memorize that golden thought; Paste it in your bonnet. Holidays The Actor He sheds his trappings with a shout, He shelves the buskin for a day. The Rialto first he strolls about, Then rushes to a matinee. The Hackman At last the yearly day has come When from dull work he's ...