Our Fathers Also Lyrics

Excellent herbs had our fathers of old-- Excellent herbs to ease their pain-- Alexanders and Marigold, Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane-- Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue, ( Almos...Read Full Lyrics

There was a Priest at Philae, Tongue-tied, feeble, and old; And the daily prayer to the Virgin Was all the Office he could. The others were ill-remembered, Mumbled and hard ...Read Full Lyrics

Baloo For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy blind old Baloo's sake! Clean or tainted, hot or stale, Hold it a...Read Full Lyrics

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where eath tooth-point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a fluent...Read Full Lyrics

About the 15th of this month you may expectour Mr. -- , with the usual Spring Seed, etc., Catalogues.– Florist’s Announcement. It’s forty in the shade to-day, the spouti...Read Full Lyrics

Elephants of the Gun-Teams We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees. We bowed our necks to service--they ne'er were...Read Full Lyrics

Go, stalk the red deer o'er the heather, Ride, follow the fox if you can! But, for pleasure and profit together, Allow me the hunting of Man-- The chase of the Human, the searc...Read Full Lyrics

If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. There's little left, indeed, of the city you will read of, And all the folk I write about ...Read Full Lyrics

Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But light your churchwarden And judge it according, When I've told you the tro...Read Full Lyrics

"They are fools who kiss and tell" -- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you see, On the e...Read Full Lyrics