Edgar Albert Guest Poems

UP and down the lanes of love,
With the bright blue skies above,
And the grass beneath our feet,
O, so green and O, so sweet!
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THEY tell me that I 'm spoiling you,
I The neighbors say that you should be
For all the awful things you do,
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I never knew the joy of getting home,
I never knew how fast a heart could beat;
I never tasted joy,
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Little girls are mighty nice,
Take 'em any way they come;
They are always worth their price;
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All things grow lovely in a little while,
The brush of memory paints a canvas fair;
The dead face through the ages wears a smile,
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It needed just an extra turn to make the bolt secure,
A few more minutes on the job and then the work was sure;
But he begrudged the extra turn, and when the task was through,
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Last night he said the dead were dead
And scoffed my faith to scorn;
I found him at a tulip bed
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Perhaps the victory shall not come to me,
Perhaps I shall not reach the goal I seek,
It may be at the last I shall be weak
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For this and that and various things
It seems that men must get together,
To purchase cups or diamond rings
Or to discuss the price of leather.
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Out near the links where I go to play
My favorite game from day to day,
There's a friend of mine that I've never met
Walked with or broken bread with, yet
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