Edgar Albert Guest Poems

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51.
The Gentle Gardener

I'd like to leave but daffodills
to mark my little way,
To leave but tulips red and white
behind me as I stray;
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52.
A Boy And His Dog

A boy and his dog make a glorious pair:
No better friendship is found anywhere,
For they talk and they walk and they run and they play,
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53.
Success

This I would claim for my success—not fame nor gold,
Nor the throng's changing cheers from day to day,
Not always ease and fortune's glad display,
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54.
Eternal Friendship

Who once has had a friend has found
The link 'twixt mortal and divine;
Though now he sleeps in hallowed ground,
He lives in memory's sacred shrine;
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55.
Success And Failure

I do not think all failure's undeserved,
And all success is merely someone's luck;
Some men are down because they were unnerved,
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56.
At Breakfast Time

My Pa he eats his breakfast
in a funny sort of way:
We hardly ever see him
at the first meal of the day.
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57.
The Happy Man

If you would know a happy man,
Go find the fellow who
Has had a bout with trouble grim
And just come smiling through.
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58.
Mother's Glasses

I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook,
And how we have to hustle round for it to help her look,
But there's another care we know that often comes our way,
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59.
Mother

Never a sigh for the cares that she bore for me
Never a thought of the joys that flew by;
Her one regret that she couldn't do more for me,
Thoughtless and selfish, her Master was I.
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60.
At The Millennium

At The Millennium
WHENEVER men and women learn
To be themselves from day to day,
To spend no more than what they earn,
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