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Riley Songs of Friendship

James Whitcomb Riley

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Good-by gals! and he takes his chance
And wads hisself through the workhouse-fence:
He sheds the town and the railroad, too,
And strikes mud roads for a change of view.

The jay drives by on his way to town,
And looks on the hobo in high scorn,
And so likewise does the farmhands stare—
But what the haids does the hobo care!

He hits the pike, in the summer's heat
Or the winter's cold, with its snow and sleet—
With a boot on one foot, and one shoe—
Or he goes barefoot, if he chooses to.

But he likes the best, when the days is warm,
With his bum Prince-Albert on his arm—
He likes to size up a farmhouse where
They haint no man nor bulldog there.

Oh, he gits his meals wherever he can,
So natchurly he's a handy man—
He's a handy man both day and night,
And he's always. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A few gems captured my attention (out of the stack of sweetly mediocre poems). Underneath the mass of cheery naiveté there's a few moments of serious themes: appreciating the value of a friend, experiencing life's losses as you age, looking back on life with wistfulness recollection. But most of it

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