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From Farmer Harrington's Calendar	A
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APRIL	B
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RAIN rain rain for three good solid fluid weeks	C
Till the air swims and all creation leaks	C
And street cars furnish still less room to spare	D
And hackmen several times have earned their fare	D
The omnibuses lumber through the din	E
And carry clay outside as well as in	E
The elevated trains with jerky care	D
Haul half way comfort through the dripping air	D
The gutters gallop past the liquid scene	F
As brisk as meadow brooks though not so clean	F
What trees the city keeps for comfort's sake	G
Are shedding tears as if their hearts would break	G
And water tries to get by storming steady	H
That fourth of all the world it hasn't already	H
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And men are not so sweet as men could wish	I
In air that wouldn't offend a moderate fish	I
Few places can be found outside or in	E
Where this dark featured weather has not been	E
For man has always striven and in vain	J
To roof his disposition from the rain	J
I've strolled about this morning several miles	K
'Mongst men who get their living by their smiles	K
I've set my old umbrella up to drip	L
In places where I claimed relationship	L
Or rather where my heart did and that's more	M
Than blood connection is sixteen times o'er	A
I've journeyed up and down through half Broadway	N
And did not see a first class smile to day	N
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And so in spite of all that I can do	O
These gold bowed spectacles are growing blue	O
And my old heart must bear along the road	P
A fanciful but rather heavy load	P
A painful pressure from a hand unseen	F
Most any one knows nearly what I mean	F
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I think I'll powder up this dark skinned day	N
By going to night to hear the actors play	N
They'll make me laugh and tone me up a bit	Q
And get me out of this unnatural fit	Q
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o'clock P M	R
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Got back alive and that's worth thinking on	S
From where there's been such lots of killing done	T
Mercy it was a somewhat skittish sight	U
So many people butchered in one night	U
'Twas just a lot of people playing crime	V
A sort of murder picnic all the time	V
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We found the theatre with handbills spread	W
Near where the notice in the paper said	W
The weather had slacked up an hour or so	X
And Wife thought she would condescend to go	X
And after stumbling over several chaps	Y
Who thought they'd met us somewhere else perhaps	Y
And cheerfully addressed us o'er and o'er	A
As if they'd known us several years or more	M
Persisting in affording us a chance	Z
To buy our tickets at a slight advance	Z
The theatres employ these men I've heard	A2
To greet their patrons with a friendly word	A2
And light their way in with kind word and smile	B2
And make a dollar out of them meanwhile	B2
We brushed past these remarkable dead beats	C2
Some tickets bought and scrambled to our seats	C2
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After a piece of music by the band	D2
The curtain rose before a castle grand	D2
And soldiers talking with a half scared mien	F
About a spook that one of them had seen	F
When lo this ghost appears plump to their view	O
And will not talk although they beg him to	O
I whispered to my wife that I'd a freak	E2
That a newspaper man could make him speak	E2
But suddenly my comments had to cease	F2
For Wife encouraged me to hold my peace	F2
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When lo this ghost who thus far might have come	G2
Out of a sky asylum for the dumb	G2
Speaks with a queer but rather human sound	H2
When once his son the Prince gets on the ground	H2
And taking him aside ten feet almost	I2
Tells the poor boy that he's his father's ghost	I2
Whose own false brother softly to him crept	J2
And poured him full of poison while he slept	J2
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Then the young man got mad though to my mind	K2
'Twas lunacy of quite a knowing kind	K2
And went to work with an apparent view	O
Of killing off 'most every one he knew	O
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I haven't the time his actions all to state	L2
I'll only say he managed it first rate	L2
And some way killed all relatives he saw	M2
From uncle to prospective father in law	M2
And when he got through those he hadn't snuffed out	N2
Were hardly worth while bothering about	N2
I mustn't forget to say that this poor elf	O2
Became at last a good square corpse himself	O2
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I looked around and the whole building through	O
Women were shedding tears as if 'twas true	O
And Wife was 'most too much concerned to speak	E2
And even my old eyes had sprung a leak	E2
'Twas a moist time and I remarked 'Tis plain	J
We've come out of the rain into the rain	J
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I got so full of funeral sitting there	D
Then when we once more sniffed the clean live air	D
It seemed a piece of good luck all around	H2
To get away once more alive and sound	H2
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That's what they call a tragedy where Death	P2
Flies 'round till he himself gets out of breath	P2
And with sword slashes and cold poison filled	Q2
All who amount to anything get killed	Q2
It's part of life some time again I'll view it	Q
But take a good square rest before I do it	Q
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From Arthur Selwyn's Note book	R2
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Here on this sea beach I wander	A
Why of the storms am I fonder	A
Than of the sunlight above them	R
And the clouds why do I love them	R
Waves of the sky onward sweeping	S2
Or to the ocean waves leaping	S2
Why do I court this fierce day	N
Dashing my face full of spray	N
Why when the waves strike the shore	M
With their strong leonine roar	M
Does my soul fiercely entreat them	R
Rush out with rapture to meet them	R
Why do I love to descry	M
War in the fields of the sky	T2
Why does the chain lightning's glare	M
Ploughing blue meadows of air	M
Look to my vision alway	N
Sweet as a star in the day	N
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You who in fair summer weather	M
Seek this sea city together	M
Built for tumultuous rest	U2
With the famed ocean chief guest	U2
Not half the pleasure you've known	V2
That I here wand'ring alone	V2
On these wet sand fields have found	H2
Hearing the ocean's own sound	H2
Viewing fierce waves from afar	M
Strive with the winter in war	M
Storms that tumultuously roll	W2
Far through my innermost soul	W2
Here you encounter at last	X2
Harmonies wondrous and vast	X2
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What did I find on the shore	M
Must I rehearse it once more	M

William Mckendree Carleton

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