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Edgar Albert Guest

Edgar Albert Guest

The Bumps and Bruises Doctor
I’m the bumps and bruises doctor;
I’m the expert that they seek
When their rough and tumble playing
Leaves a scar on leg or cheek.
I’m the rapid, certain curer
For the wounds of every fall;
I’m the pain eradicator;
I can always heal them all.
 
Bumps on little people’s foreheads
I can quickly smooth away;
I take splinters out of fingers
Without very much delay.
Little sorrows I can banish
With the magic of my touch;
I can fix a bruise that’s dreadful
So it isn’t hurting much.
 
I’m the bumps and bruises doctor,
And I answer every call,
And my fee is very simple,
Just a kiss, and that is all.
And I’m sitting here and wishing
In the years that are to be,
When they face life’s real troubles
That they’ll bring them all to me.

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Other works by Edgar Albert Guest...
Portrait of Francisco de Goya, by Vicente López Portaña
My Creed

To live as gently as I can; To be, no matter where, a man; To take what comes of good or ill And cling to faith and honor still… To do my best, and let that stand
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Real Lessons

These are the lessons I would lea… Not how to climb above all men, Not how the greatest sums to earn, Not how to wield a master pen; But I would learn how I can be
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The Home-Wrecker

MISCHIEVOUS and full of fun, Eyes that sparkle like the sun; Mouth that’s always in a smile, Hands in trouble all the while. Tugging this and tugging that,
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The Handy Man

The handy man about the house Is old and bent and gray; Each morning in the yard he toils, Where all the children play; Some new task every day he finds,
My Religion

My religion’s lovin’ God, who mad… Who marks, no matter where it be,… An’ my religion’s servin’ Him the… By not despisin’ anything He made… It’s lovin’ sky an’ earth an’ sun…
If I Had Youth

If I had youth I’d bid the world… I’d answer every challenge to my w… And though the silent mountains sh… I’d try to make them subject to my… I’d keep my dreams and follow wher…
Glad

There’s a battered old drum on the… And a Teddy bear sleeps in my cha… There’s a doll carriage barring th… Ah, it’s weeks since she trundled… There are building blocks strewn i…
Rich

Who has a troop of romping youth About his parlour floor, Who nightly hears a round of cheer… When he is at the door, Who is attacked on every side
A Valentine

YOUR cheeks are pinker than the… Your eyes are bluer than the skies… Than you no fairer blossom grows, In you all earthly sweetness lies. Without you life were drear to me,
The Green of Michigan

I’VE seen the Rockies in the wes… I’ve seen the canyons wild and gri… I’ve seen the prairies golden dres… And California’s hedges prim. I’ve seen the Kansas corn fields…
Cornered

I KNEW it was comin’, I’d watch… Without sayin’ a word to a soul ex… Of the sweet sort o’ things that w… An,' ‘You orter feel mighty glad… Was all that she said. But I didn…
Questions

Would you sell your boy for a stac… Would you miss that hand that is y… Would you take a fortune and never… The man, in a few brief years, he’… Suppose that his body were racked…
To an Old Friend

When we have lived our little live… When we’ve seen all that we shall… When we shall take one backward lo… I pray that you shall be as glad a… Time was we started out to find th…
Example

Perhaps the victory shall not come… Perhaps I shall not reach the goa… It may be at the last I shall be… And falter as the promised land I… Yet I must try for it and strive…
The Finest Age

When he was only nine months old, And plump and round and pink of ch… A joy to tickle and to hold, Before he’d even learned to speak, His gentle mother used to say:



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