As parents their favourite child ever bother,
And oftner than needs keep on calling by name,
A way safe and same,
Does our heavenly Father;
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OH, FATHER in heaven, you I adore,
And thank for your son's Savior blood;
And for your Spirit caring evermore,
And for your word by us is heard.
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He's my uncle and to my father a brother,
To many a darling or to all and sundry rather;
A pot of knowledge unique, and of humor and quit,
And queer a sight, a wonder as right.
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Of the Royal Naval College in the suburban Miami,
He was a Danish don of Science and Space;
And Dave Daewoo was a no other:
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Now, America, come and let us reason together
In this dull and dense political weather
And once again, reach real and right choice
To save a people from Baton to Boise
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Hold my feeble hand, O Lord,
For where to step I can not behold;
My feet are frail and I am effete,
Hold my feeble hand, O Lord.
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This is the time, this is the hour;
This is the moment that to begin I choose:
To give unto world opuses of poetry power,
Fellow poets and hungry minds to use.
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Places Of Dark
Sundry places and things of dark,
There danger and pain and lack, lurk.
The Ballad of The Bachelor Beekeeper is such a rare piece of poetic work. Genius and skill are evident...
Compile a book on these poems add a tag to your name at the National library