Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.
Will CarletonIf there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
Will CarletonWorm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
Will CarletonCover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
Will CarletonThanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!
Will CarletonBut I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
Will CarletonCover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
Will CarletonOver all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
Will CarletonBoys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Will CarletonSo I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree
Will Carleton