Edgar Albert Guest Poems

Think happy thoughts!
Think sunshine all the day;
Refuse to let the trifling worries stay,
Crowd them with thoughts of laughter from your mind.
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His eye was wild and his face was taut with anger and hate and rage,
And the things he muttered were much too strong for the ink of the printed page. I found him there when the dusk came down, in his golf clothes still was he,
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As a golfer I'm not one who cops the money,
I shall always be a member of the dubs;
There are times my style is positively funny,
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My big brother will git you fer that,
He'll shine up your eye and he'll step on your hat:
You'd better watch out in the mornin', for he
Will be lookin' fer you, jes' for pickin' on me.
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(In which Ye Ed attempts the millionaire's game and obeys the first rule of golf, which is to put back the turf.)
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The brave man journeys straight ahead;
The coward goes
Along his way in constant dread
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If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us along,
If each every minute looked after himself and good things all went to the
strong,
If nobody cared just a little for you, and nobody thought about me,
And we stood all alone to the battle of life, what a dreary old world it
would be!
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Fish can be bought in the market place,
So it isn't the fish I'm after.
I want to get free from the care-drawn face
And back to an honest laughter,
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I don't see why Pa likes him so,
And seems so glad to have him come;
He jabs my ribs and wants to know
If here and there it's hurting some.
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I might not ever scale the mountain heights
Where all the great men stand in glory now;
I may not ever gain the world's delights
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