Jim was a boy who was fond of clowns,        And thought they were excellent fun;    He talked so much of them and their ways,        That one night he…

    With a ho-ho-ho! and a hi-hi-hi!    With a canzonet and tabor,    Thus, with ho-ho-ho! and our hi-hi-hi!    We amble, ramble, gambol, I    And my lily-fingered neighbor.     With a ha-ha-ha!…

    Weep not for him who, in the battle dying,    Lives in the lays of those he sought to save;    Weep not for him who on the cold…

    We all know the face of the chap who can tell    How he led the victorious van,    Through whose terrible yell all the enemy fell    Or fled from…

“By the splendor of God!” was a characteristic oath of William the Conqueror.     By the splendor of God! We come! We come!    To fight to the…

    By the Revolution’s dead,    By their Blood in battle shed,    By the Earth that drank their gore,    By the Heaven in which they soar,    By the Union Stripe and…

    ‘Tis daily this baste    Will prosade to the fayste,    The best that Ould Oireland has seen;    The P’s are but three,    But they’re plenty for me, –     The Pratie, the…

    With pensive memories    We part the Ocean foam,    To find ‘neath summer skies    A country and a home.    O lily land of France,    Farewell! Farewell, Paris! (Pa-ree)    Farewell to Life’s romance!    Welcome…

    As I stroll by the stream where you stray,    A beam is reflected afar,    Which seems, on the waters, a ray –     The ray from a luminous star.    What…

    Swift o’er the lee when the wind flies free,    Follows the ship “Ohio,”    With skies o’ercast she bends to the blast,    Like a billowy bird she can fly,…