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Edgar Albert Guest

Edgar Albert Guest

Our Country

God grant that we shall never see
 Our country slave to lust and greed;
God grant that here all men shall be
 United by a common creed.
Here Freedom’s Flag has held the sky
 Unstained, untarnished from its birth;
Long may it wave to typify
 The happiest people on the earth.
 
Beneath its folds have mothers smiled
 To see their little ones at play;
No tyrant hand, by shame defiled,
 To them has barred life’s rosy way.
No cruel wall of caste or class
 Has bid men pause or turn aside;
Here looms no gate they may not pass–
 Here every door is opened wide.
 
Here at the wells of Freedom all
 Who are athirst may drink their fill.
Here fame and fortune wait to call
 The toiler who has proved his skill.
Here wisdom sheds afar its light
 As every morn the school bells ring,
And little children read and write
 And share the knowledge of a king.
 
God grant that we shall never see
 Our country slave to lust and greed;
God grant that men shall always be
 United for our nation’s need.
Here selfishness has never reigned,
 Here freedom all who come may know;
By tyranny our Flag’s unstained!
 God grant that we may keep it so.

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When a Little Baby Dies

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Songs of Rejoicing

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The Common Joys

These joys are free to all who liv… The rich and poor, the great and l… The charms which kindness has to g… The smiles which friendship may be… The honor of a well-spent life,
A Plea

God grant me these: the strength… Some needed service here; The wisdom to be brave and true; The gift of vision clear, That in each task that comes to me
Reflection

You have given me riches and ease, You have given me joys through the… I have sat in the shade of your tr… With the song of your birds in my… I have drunk of your bountiful win…
The Junk Box

My father often used to say: 'My boy don’t throw a thing away: You’ll find a use for it some day.… So in a box he stored up things, Bent nails, old washers, pipes and…
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; I’d like to pass away from earth
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A Convalescin’ Woman

A convalescin’ woman does the stra… An’ it’s wonderful the courage tha… O, it’s never safe to leave her fo… Or you’ll find th’ doctor’s good w… There’s that wife o’ mine, I reck…
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THEY ‘RE coming home Thanksgivi… They ’re coming back once more, And mother’s smiles begin to play The way they did before The youngsters went away. Somehow
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Under the toiler’s grimy shirt, Under the sweat and the grease and… Under the rough outside you view, Is a man who thinks and feels as y… Go talk with him,
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Lemon Pie

The world is full of gladness, There are joys of many kinds, There’s a cure for every sadness, That each troubled mortal finds. And my little cares grow lighter



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