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 V.

The future holds for him the fullest meed, For best of deeds before he fell a prey, The patient man, still prophet of the perfect day, When none shall be a slave; And none in need. American, And cosmopolitan, He made and mounted the on-sweeping wave. No ruler with so good and vast a scheme; In labors so engrossed for noblest creed— A wide and warring world to win and save, Fulfillment of the greatest dream, To give the nations peace and prosperity supreme.

ANOTHER BIRTHDAY

One birthday more has rolled around, But still my heart is in its youth; Though sixty fleeting years I've found, One birthday more has rolled around; Yet not my body underground. The song is best when sung in truth: One birthday more has rolled around, But still my heart is in its youth.

OH BABY MINE

My baby, Oh my laughing, baby child, What God-like joy you give! Since I received you, how He has smil'd And made me love and live, Oh baby mine!

Snap shot by the Author.

Some sorrow I have had, some deep delight, And much the even way; Some views attract of vale and mountain height, But naught like you, each day, Oh baby mine!

Oh baby mine, O sweetest baby mine, What angel makes you laugh? What silent tempter makes you cry and whine? But more of wheat than chaff, Oh baby mine!