Edgar Albert Guest Poems

Show the flag and let it wave
As a symbol of the brave
Let it float upon the breeze
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The smell of arnica is strong,
And mother's time is spent
In rubbing father's arms and back
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Home was never home before,
Till the baby came.
Love no golden jewels wore,
Till the baby came.
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Over the hills of time to the valley of endless years;
Over the roads of woe to the land that is free from tears
Up from the haunts of men to the place where the angels are,
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Send her a valentine to say
You love her in the same old way.
Just drop the long familiar ways
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Seems only just a year ago that he was toddling round the place
In pretty little colored suits and with a pink and shining face.
I used to hold him in my arms to watch when our canary sang,
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We need a few more optimists,
The kind that double up their fists
And set their jaws, determined-like,
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She is gentle, kind and fair,
And there's silver in her hair;
She has known the touch of sorrow,
But the smile of her is sweet;
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Out in the woods with a dog an' gun
Is my idea of a real day's fun.
'Tain't the birds that I'm out to kill
That furnish me with the finest thrill,
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He tore the curtains yesterday,
And scratched the paper on the wall;
Ma's rubbers, too, have gone astray—
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