Philemon's Poems "David Philemon Philemon s Poems T>AVID PHILEMON Copyright 1920 by David Philemon PREFACE. ^S^ .V^A-^^.o I have not tried to write anything to suit the mind of proud people, but such poems as would cover your face with shame if you are going after the rudiments of this world. Social songs, these I have tried to keep clean and pure and make such verse as would bind into one great universe of love. Sacred songs, there are for a lesson. Study it out, I have given reference at the beginning of some songs to make it easier to un- derstand the poem. I have a few songs laid down just like they will be when the music is put to them. This shows the kind of meter, gives you an idea to the swing of the song. And if you have music to fit these words, it is easy for you to follow each syllable with the music. Some of my poems are written in a mysterious way. The war of Influenza, you must study the European war, that war men- tioned in Romans 7:2, and the epidemic of Influenza to understand this poem. With about twenty-five months of school days I took the task of poet, but I will not hide behind the fact of my disadvantage of an education. Neither will I try to excuse myself from the faults of my book. I have done my best to get good strong rhymes and write such verse as would touch your heart and be inspiring to all who may hear it. Friendships are passing by. This poem was written in a few minutes, like some others, but I have spent days and days to get the right word to the right place in a song. I have spent years on one single poem, and I have spent seven years in preparing this little book, and I hope it will be a message of joy to you. THE AUTHOR. 1 May 20, 1920. David Philemon, Norwood, N. C. SEP 24 1921 Index — See Page 31. ^M FRIENDSHIPS ARE PASSING BY We are on the sea of life and are in the storm and strife Will you take the ship today sail across the narrow way, We will join the mighty fleet, all of these are friendships swie,et, Get on lest you sink or die, friendships now are passing by. Chorus. We are in a hppay crew, with a fleet of friendships true, Sailing to that home beyond the sky. Do not wait, and be too late, friendships now are passing by. Oih, the joy there will be sailing on the breezy sea Ships may pass here never more, but sail on to tho golden shore. These are friendships kind and true, captain loudly calls for you To go to that home on high, friendships now are passing oy. (Cho.) Soon the ships will all be gone and leave you in the sea alone. Oh, my brother, stop and think, all but friendships soon will sink. Why be lost here in the wave, friendships nov/ are here to save. You can be saved if you try, friendships now are paasing by. (Cho.) KEEP BUSY Keep busy, busy ever day, never, never cease to pray Never let a moment go without a record clear to show You was working in the strife and was busy all your life Keep busy, busy as a bee, helping everyone you Bee If they are weary, weak and cold, lead and guide them to the fold Then our Lord will take them in, keep busy bringing them from sin Keep busy, busy every night, scatter darkness with your light Now keep busy, do your best, you will surely find sweet rest. Jesus then will give release and your busy work will cease . THE VINE OF LOVE I am the vine. John 15:5. Jesus ISO kind, him you will find, to be the vine of love. Come and abide he safely will guide you to that home above, The fountain flows free for all will be, th^ branches of this vine. The vine all so true will safely keep you and round your soul will twine, Chorus. Oh, beautiful vine it is Jesus I know, he comforts the soul wherever you go Around you will twine His mercy does wave wherever you roam and angels are waiting to welcome you home The lost onesi to save. Bindiag in heart, never to part, but living in love so sweet, No sorrow found there is joy all round where loved ones all shall meet. The vine is telling of love compelling and grace he offers free, Oome hear the story of Christ in glory who died for you and me. (Cho.) Now hear his voice says come rejoice will you the call obey. Here in the shade the palace is made, come to the vine and stay. We will live so long with the vine so strong, whose all in all so great. Come now and believe the blessing receive, oh, do not longer wait. — ^(Cho.) SWEET HOME SOMEWHERE Home somewhere and oh how sweet where loved ones at home shall meet To that home this is the way, live for Jesus every day. He will safely guide you there to that home, sweet home somewhere. Chorus Home sweet home somewhere will be, where we will dwell dear liord with thee, In a masion bright and fair, we shall rest at home somewhere. That will be a joyful place where we all meet face to face Never more to say farewell in that home where we shall dwell. All our loved ones will be there at that home sweet home somewhere. 'Tis a home for strangers lost who went for at greatest cost Jesus paid the debt for you that your soul may enter through Now give life unto His care; you'll find home, sweet home, some- where. GLORY TO GOD I HAVE FOUND IT. Glory to God I have found it, found what was found in a manger so low. Glory to God in the highest, I found the dear Saviour I know Glory to God I have found it, found when I am troubled Jesus is there, Yes, gloy to God, I have found his service joy beyond compare. Glory to God I have found it, found Jesus and His Mercy is free. Yes glory to God I have found the Saviour so precious to me, Glory to God I have found it, found Jesus is a helper for all. Yes glory to God I have found, he never refuses a call. CHRISTMAS BELLS WILL ALWAYS RING I will tell of that bell Always ringing in the dell It will ring, and will bring Joy to all who will sing of his love He will do things for you Christ is Christmas bell so true By hiis side, he will guide In that borne to abide far above. Every day, on the way Cbrist is ringing while we pray If we dwell, in that bell We will not s-ay farewell or goodbye. Now take heed Christ will lead And will fill every need Will you ring, for the king Life enternal to bring and not die. CLEAR CREEK So clear and bright with pure delight the water fl'ows so free Then high and low the waves do flow all racing to the sea, The deep clear lake is where they take the people to Baptise Its crystal grave from sin will save and fit you for the skies. Chorus The cleansing tide is spreading wide, so clear and pure we know The Saviour seek, come to Clear Creek and be made white as snow Our church we name from the great fame of that clear crystal bay. Come join the band, here in it stand it will wash your sins away. Clear creek is pure and we endure the service we have therp. For all to meet and sing so sweet is joy beyond compare. (Cho.) WAVE THE TEMPERANCE BANNER Wave it in the valley down by the shady pool, Some are still opposing the prohibition rule And are in the valley therei making rum and gin Selling to the people the drink of curse and sin. Chorus Wave it, wave it always wave the banner everywhere you go In this land of freedom let no liquor flow Keep the banner waving, waft it up in the sky, Beer and wine is flbwing where they do call it dry, Keep the banner wafted, wave it forever more, Till victims surrender and close the barroom door. Wave the banner always over the sea and land Straight for prohibition we all do firmly stand We will wave the banner here in the Sunday School Teaching all the children the prohibition rule Biting like a serpent and like the adder's sting Sorrow woe and wailing is what strong drinks do bring It is a deadly poison oh children will you wave A banner of refuge and then souls you will save FROM YOUR FACE I AM NOT HIDING. From your face I am not hiding When on steel rails I am riding, But the raging cars I am shoving Toward the little girl I am loving I just left you for a season, And no fault for any reason. If when lonely you see trouble Think of me and love will double I will fill your heart with pleasure Make you queen of all love's treasure. When I am coming round the mountain On my way to love's sweet fountain Where true love is always growing, And the stream of bliss is flowing Way down in the mountain, valley In the city by the alley There my heart with care is laden, For I want to see that maiden Face to face we will be living Love to you forever giving. RUBY THE JEWEL I LOVE (There is gold and a multitude of rubies but the lips of knowledge are a precious jswel. — Proverbs 20:15.) The diamonds are glowing, they sparkle and shine, And jewels by thousands so precious and fine Here are jewels and jewels by thousands you see, I cannot love jewels that will not love me. The ruby I love it I love it I do For Ruby so sweetly says I do love you. The Ruby was made for the month of July, The Ruby I love it and will till I die. For the heart of the summer the Ruby was made, They gave her a beauty that never will fade The jewel so precious is Ruby I know Her face like a Ruby is all in a glow When I look at Ruby then Ruby should be There sparkling with brightness and looking at me Theii, closer and closer we pleasingly meet Looking at love in her face so sweet Now holding the jewel so precious and fine Pressing her lips and she pressing on mine CLOSE TO YOU AND CLOSE TO ME 1. Close to you, close to you, ever, ever would I be Sweet girl please stay close to me Close to you I will stay And will love you every day Close to you at your side Waves of love like ocean's tide While we are on the breezy sea Sweet girl please stay close to me 2. Close to me, close to me, sweet girl lover kind and true I will stay so close to you Oh the joy when I meet With a girl like you so sweet In your arms of love cleave Never, neveir will I leave Never, never will I roam But will stay with you at home 7 SOMEBODY LOVES YOU AND SOMEBODY LOVES ME 1. Somebody loves you, somebody loves you, who could it be I love somebody, somebody loves me When I was invited then love was united I love somebody, I love them I do Somebody loves me and somebody loves you 2. Somebody loves me, somebody loves me, with a love so true I love somebody, somebody loves you My heart now exposing, forever enclosing This love the sweetest that ever can be Somebody loves you and somebody loves me. LOVE THAT WILL NOT FADE 1. First I met you in the arbor where a nice little girl did greet Came with all her loving kindness and gave me a welcome sweet I went home with this little maiden a while with her I stayed Then she told me all about it and made love that will not fade Chorus Sweet little girl I love you. Sweet little girl I love you, Sweet lit- tle girl I love you, since I met you at the arbor in the shade When my arms were round caressing and your sweet lips I was pressing then the sweetest love was made. 2. Just like the sunshine on the flowers is your lovely face so sweet Every time I think of Lillie just then you I long to meet Like the lily of the valley by the river in the shade She is always sweetly waving with a love that will not fade— (Chor) 3. It is fine to be together with a nice little girl like you Who has never fading beauty and a heart so kind and true When I put my arms around you and your lips on mine were laid Then it was everlasting sweetness and was love that will not fade— (Chor.) 3 IN THE ROAD OF LOVE 1. In the mountain dells, I will make my home In the valley of love, forever to roam There are the mountains birds, to sing for you Will you go with me my lover please do Not a lonely life in a savage band But a blissful home in the mountain land 2. I will lead you there, to the station door Then we will sweetly ride, to the golden shore I may never come back when I go away Will you ride with me in true love today I'll scale through the skies like the angel dove Will you go with me in the road of love. THE DRUNKARD'S SONG Get out of my way, get out of my way Or I will throw you in the ditches where you must stay Get out of my road, get out of my road Move your wagon and move your load I am going to the city to get some wine And let them know that the city is mine Chorus. Open this door open this door I drank that wine and I want some more Keep my bottles all filled with wine It makes me feel so jolly and fine Move your trash move your trash I bought this city and I paid the cash Get out of my town, get out of my town Dirty old baboon ragged old clown Nothing but a nice girl clean and sweet Can stay in my city or walk my street Give up that gun, give up that gun I dare you to start and you better not run Give up that light, give up that light You ought to be chained in your bed at night You are always picking with every lock Robbing and stealing till ten o'clock Get out today, get out today None but me and my bride can stay Just you alone, just you alone Can stay in my city at my royal throne I will give you a throne and a crown to wear And make you a queen of a city so fair Stop that train, stop that train Never put it back on the line again Put it in the dry, put it in the dry You can haul it on the wagons if you will try Take my horses go the subway track Get them cars and bring them back Stop them ships, stop them ships They must not take such long trips They caused that fight, they caused that fight They took the boys over and it was not right The ships did stop and the war did cease When I did give command for peace Let them stay, let them stay Here in the harbor every day They are mine to keep, they are mine to keep I bought every ship and the briny deep I bought every island, I bought every sea Now this whole world belongs to me The Germans cry, the Germans cry We had rather live than die. Leave them alone, leave them alone I have them cased in a big black stone The Huns cant fight nor they can't sail For I have them all locked in jail 10 They did sign, they did sign Every term and every line All we lost, all we lost Germans now must pay the cost They gave all this world release When they sligned them terms of peace Soldiers are found, soldiers are found Standing at the borders all around Get out of my world, get out of my world Or into the waters you will be hurled I have no soldiers I have no fight In this holy land of light Never more, never more Shall the angry billows roar Not a tide, not a tide On the sea from side to side Just as still as still can be Are the waters of the sea Soft and smooth, soft and smooth Shall the clouds forever move Take away, take away Every lightening rod today Here no storm or clouds can roll For things are all in my control It will stand, it will stand Shine and shine at my command They will shine, they will shine The sun, the moon the stars are mine And every planet that you see This universe belongs to me You must dwell, you must dwell In peace and love or go to hell I have them keys, I have them keys And I will lock you where I please If you will dwell in peace and love I will send you to that home above. 11 McADOO This is the story of McAdoo. He is the driver wheel of the red, white and hlue. He was right at the front when the war begun And has been the mainspring in the Machine gun. He made all inventions of scientific and skill For he wanted to conquer, but not to kill He wanted freedom now and forever to stand A whole world of freedom he did demand. He is a six wheel driver and a locomotive too The vessel that carried them over was McAdoo While he carried the boys over the briny deep In his arms of refuge they could safely sleep. Casey Jones in the days of old. Was an engineer fearless, so wise and bold Over all kind of roads he could run so fast But now old Casey is the thing of the past. Casey Jones could drive an engine on one rail so fine But he could not drive the Germans beyond the Hindenburg line So he gave the job to General Mack Who rushed to the front and drove the Germans back. Then on last November the eleventh day A full surrender the Germans did pay With armies and cruisers and machine that flies He wiped the tears from millions of eyes. He is tooting the whistle, he is ringing the bell He is helping the people where their nations have fell His hand on the throttle and his eyes on the track. With soldiers by thousands he is bringing them back. 12 GOT THE FLU When you begin to cough and sneeze Feel weak and shaky in your knees There is an aching in your back The whole system out of whack No doubt what is wrong with you Like many others got the flu. Call Doctor Love to come now quick This Flu has made me awful sick Doctor Love and others too Do all they can for this bad Flu But they say when it takes it course . There is nothing to prevent its force Got the Flu I know it is bad If it is like the Flu I had Your eyes are sore the sights not true And everything taste like the Flu Weak and chilly and want your room more hot It is the flu that you have got HANG THEM ON A SOUR APPLE TREE I don't like this place, nor I don't like the school No I don't like the games or the teachers' rule Every one fussy and they are picking on me I'll tell you what do hang them on a sour apple tree Then they will stop their guying and mischief I bet For that will be a lesson they will never forget Hang them high let the wind blow cold And let them fall if they don't hold Let them hang while the trees all bloom Looking through the bars of a dark sour gloom Seeing other children happy as happy can be And them all hanging on a sour apple tree Let them hang while the apples grow And the sour juice all down the branches flow 18 Hanging through June in the scorching heat Tasting apples that are not very sweet Tell others about it that they may see What caused them to hang on a sour apple tree IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING i The land of the living is not a far country but is found at our feet So beautiful and pleasant so lovely and sweet Here are four seasons in the land of the living And these are the things that God is now giving Spring is here fair and sweet And these are the things we have to eat The berries are red on the strawberry vine From every currant tree the currants do shine On the mulberry tree the berries do show About the size of a banana but better I know The huckleberry bushes are bent to the ground And some of the berries would weigh one pound Summer is here in the good old summer time Now all the luscious fruit is hanging in its prime We have all kind of fruits and cantalopes too And plenty of watermellons that are nine feet through So many flowers they perfume the air And sparkling water found everywhere Autumn has come with its breezes you see Whirling and dancing in every tree Scattering nuts all over the ground Then about in the garden potatoes are found Just seventeen potatoes are all the vine can hold For they are big as a bushel and yellow as gold Winter we have and winter grapes too Hanging in clusters and vines are all blue And locusts by thousands now hang by their side They are twelve feet long and three feet wide These are the things God is giving away To the children who worship him every day 14 DRIVING THE STAKE OF STEADFASTNESS Drive the stake of steadfastness, do not stop it in the sand, But drive it to the solid rock, and then your stake will stand. Keep your stake standing upright from the time you begin, Do not let it wave about, or lean on evil sin. You have to drive the stake, the power of Almighty's hand. If you will harken to His Voice and give heed to His command. Wind the coil of life around the stake that will never fall ; Then courts and trials of life may come, but you can stand them all. Winding the coil daily, holding the stake upright. Hitting it every minute, striking with all your might. Going to a solid foundation, from there to glory you rise, Building a permanent structure and a road up through the skies. Driving the stake of steadfastness, loving the service each day, Going to realms of glory, showing others the way. Every kind word and action leave marks that will plainly show The people who are seeking to follow the way the driver did go, Giving the Lord our service is the only progress we make. Each step toward the heavenly mansion is a lick that is driving the stake. There is a task for every one, wherever you may arrive. In every vacant corner is a stake for someone to drive. When you come to the vacant corner and find the stake leaning on sin. Hold it up and drive it for Jesus, and a crown of life you will win. Many are falling in sin, in the corners so dark and cold, Drive for them the stake of steadfactness, and you will shelter the fold. God's fold has all been scattered, like sheep they have gone astray, You cannot drive sheep together, each one will go on his way. You can drive the stake of steadfastness, make a place where they all can rejoice. Then they will come at your calling, for they know their master's voice. Driving the stake of steadfastnj&ss, going down deep in the sod, Making a fold for refuge, and building the church of God, 15 Be ye steadfast, be not moved though your stake be small; If it is only just a tallow candle, do not let it fall. It will help to scatter darkness; it will pay the victim's cost, And guide weary souls to Jesus that were long in darkness lost. Then when you sail upon death's sea, and over the jeopardy shoal, Your stake like a lighthouse on the shore will guide you to your goal. KING FISHER. That old way of hooking and baiting with flies Is a method of fishing I do despise They told me fish from the river were hard to take And I knew real good baskets were easy to make Then I made a couple both good and strong Two feet in diameter and four feet long I made wire ropes that would surely keep My baskets when the river was wide and deep I put one basket at the mouth of a race Where the fresh water flowed was a good fishing place And the other basket at the brook just below They were fine fishing places I know In the bed of the river a path I made At the mouth of the brook where the large fish played Below the path was a dam all up to date To make the water eddy and to hold the bait The fish would follow the path where the bait did flow Then right into my baskets the fish would go I caught nothing but catfish until late in the spring Then more fish and better fish I would bring When all of the carp begun to rove came with bagfulls like partridges when you catch the whole drove I told them all I wanted was a good cornbread And I would bring fish fresh from the water and none would be dead. When the thief found my baskets I went to the river quietly and sharp An otter was taking from my basket a carp 16 1 said to the maurauder now I will learn you Reached out and gave his tail a twist to see how that would do He swore with an oath he would claw me to death We scuffled for a v/hile then I stopped to get breath Then I carried him out to a rock on the shore And I smashed him there till he said he would steal no more There I nailed him up for a sign to the rest To stay away from the fish baskets if they know what is best Then I gathered my fish and home I went Wet, cold and wearied but I was content It was wondrous and surprising when they saw what I caught Not knowing about the fight that I fought But was more wondrous than ever when I told of the fight That I and the otter did have that night Then my father came with a silly frown And these are the words that he layed down I told you to stay away from that river at night For your boat may be wrecked in the water so deep and no one in hearing or sight I told him I was bound to protect my baskets when so many fish were going astray I took my light and revolver and down by the river I lay I saw the burglars coming in a slowly pace Right at my baskets was their first stopping place I went to the men talked frank and fair And asked them their reason for being down there First I warned them with words of cheer They all cursed me saying why are you here I told them I was there to protect my baskets at night They said you mean to call us thieves now we will fix you right They drew their knives and said death you must meet I pointed a revolver towards their bodies and fast the volleys did repeat Then two officers came in a dash after me With a report of murder in the first degree And a dealy assault with intent to kill I said yes I did' so and will do so still My name is King Fisher I catch them you know And tell others the story wherever I go Now, young fishermen, warning take, Never leave your baskets for darkness sake But stay close around night and day And let no fish be stolen away. IN THE WAR OF INFLUENZA The influenza war was coming and was coming with a flight There was just a few Physicians who knew any way to fight These Physicians had been drilling they had been in battles too ■ But in the war of Influenza they knew nothing what to do I was drafted into service not a thing did I know And without a minute training to the front I had to go We could not see the germs did not know which way to start All along the battle line we were few and far apart We quarantined the cities but the quarantine line was broke And many lives were lost in clouds of gas and smoke The gas mask was soon invented and it did work so fine When it was made and saturated in a lake of turpentine We did not hear the volleys or hear the battles din We knew not when the line was broke or when the germs were com- ing in They dropped gas bombs on cities that made thousands deaf and blind It filled them all with wild derangements and fears of every kind They had the aviation corpse the germs were in the air We could not see them flying but knew they were there They sprinkled us with shell, while we fought in fields below Bombs were falling from the air crafts thick as the wheat you sow Old Satan shocked me with a shell that was filled with Spanish Flue My nerve was broke to shivers and by conscience broken too He put me on the stretcher took me where the dead and dying lay The Influenza was there killing them by thousands every day He put me right on duty sneezing my very best When I had done a full day's work he would not let me rest 18 He said this is the Spanish Influenza is what all Physicians tell But when we get you in the furnace I guess you will call it hell They said I was always calling, calling they thought I called them just for fun To make them double quick and hustle and see how fast they would run I was filled with wild excitements, and the devil put them there Why I called those weary people I had more than I could bear He turned my stomach upside down to see the vomit spill When I was very weak and cold he struck me with a chill Then he said soon we will put you in a pit where those awful de- mons dwell Let you stay there for a while then send you on to hell When we put you in the furnace then the paying will begin Payday there comes every minute and we pay for every sin All through eternal ages we will keep it smelting hot You need not fear the conflict it is the Flu that you have got Then he put me in the coffin it was a cough all filled with pain He made it in the fiery furnace, from a germ he got in Spain I suffocated in the coffin thuin oh how bad I did feel My head felt like it was banded with a heavy band of steel Soon there came the doctor with a laxative compound That did break the bands of coughing where the Spanish germ was bound Then old Satan covered me with sores and boils while he had me in the bed From the sole of my feet to the crown of my head He put a ringing buzzing in my ears he tried to take my mind Then put something in my eyes he thought would make me blind When he saw I was regaining and his scheme of death did fail He shot me with a hypodermic that made me very weak and pale He tried his best to kill me done everything he could do His hypodermic he had loaded with the dmgs of Spanish Flu He shot the drugs into my system he thought that would make me sleep And awake in a harvest field where the devils angels reap 19 CRAIG PHILEMON IN THE HAUNTED HOME In a lone and desert valley was a house built long ago The people lived and died there some went above and some below They often visited their old home there they meet to dance and play People say it is so bad haunted there no one can stay The ones that died and went above Their spirits descend like a dove But those who died and went to hell Always come up through the well It is a lone and desert valley all about there haunts do roam Craig the bold and fearless fellow tried to make that place his home He stayed for a year or two and some fun with them he had Till they all met there one night, and treated Craig so bad. Craig was there by himself so lonely and he heard a lonesome sound Like that of many voices down in the ground Nearer, and still nearer till Craig could understand Plain enough to know it was Colonel and his band. Their voices ceased and the band did stop But Colonel still came till he came to the top He was ringing and gingling like a tiny little hell Then grumbling and lumbering like old colonel from hell Hello, hello, was his reply Where is the bed where Craig does lie That awful Colonel that Craig did dread Came in the room and moved his bed When he had moved chairs and tables all out of the way Made all things ready for the dance and play He made a light in the room then reached for his hat And up through the chimney he went like a bat He sounded his bugle saying dead ones arise And ye white robed spirits come down from the skies He called for the haunts, the witches, the spirits, and the ghosts He said come now quickly and bring a great host 20 Then old Colonel walked right in at the door And said Mr. Craig you can rest no more It is too late to run and you need not fear For the haunts, the ghosts and the witches are here They were queer looking creatures and there were no few Ten thousand or more were there in the crew Thy were all through the house and down under the floor They turned out every light and opened every door When all of the howling and growling begun Craig was afraid to walk and afraid to run Afraid to leave and afraid to stay So back in one corner unconscious he lay He was there in the corner still as a mouse When the haunts and witches were searching the house They found him in the corner and seized him by the hand Then led him right out to old Colonels big band There olws and bats were flying around Haunts and witches had covered the ground Wildcats were crowded in every tree Craig said that was a night of failure to me PETERS DIAMOND BRAND SHOES Peter's all for wear solid leather diamond brand shoes Are the everlasting good kind and all other kind refuse No matter what the clerks may tell or what kind they may show Insist on Peters Diamond brand everywhere you go They are made for solid comfort they are the shoe we love They last just like old elkins and fit you like a glove Listen, listen, listen it is Peter's Diamond Brand Will give you the best of service and all the year will stand Now listen children listen, and listen old folks too It is Peter's Diamond Brand the world famous shoe There is not a shoe on record to be found in any land That will surpass or even equal Peter's Diamond Brand 21 They will last and last for ages whatever work you do Then be good old shoes and good old shoes and almost good as new Everybody says Peter's Diamond Brand are found to be the best For every kind of wearing they always stand the test They do wisely prove it if you look down where they stand You will see a pair the very best of Peter's Diamond Brand. WAITING FOR THE TRUMPET TO SOUND Remember that woman Jezebel her life in sin was rent Jesus gave her time a plenty and space that she may repent But she loved sin and its darkness and in sin she ever was bound She repented not at His pleading but waited for the trumpet to sound This is the story of warning turn ye to Jesus today For the trumpet may call you from darkness if you should longer delay It will be too late when the trumpet does sound now is the time to begin Surrender your life to Jesus and a crown of life you will win Be ye ready waiting and watching this is my song and my story For ye know not the day or the hour when Jesus shall come in His glory Work for the night is coming seek Jesus while He may be found Be not idle in darkness waiting for the trumpet to sound JUST ACROSS THE ALLEY. Just across the alley is a little girl so fair Her face is like the sunshine and golden is her hair Every time I leave her the little girl she cries Then tears just like the dewdrops from morning glory eyes But soon the tears will vanish her eyes are clear and blue When I tell that little maiden I am coming back to you. Just across the alley down the city lane I see the form of beauty beside the window pane; Her eyes like Morning Glories with curs of gold above, Her mouth is full of kisses, her arms are full of love. Here between the river where fragrance fills the air, Just across the alley my heart is over there. 22 IN THE SHADOW OF LOVE Thisire is a true and lovely light, shining in your face so bright Though the light I cannot see Love and friendship you have made, turns the lights all into shade And now your love is shading me Here no rays of light can shine In the shade of love so fine And no light can ever glow While the sweet breeze of love does blow Chorus In the shadow, in the shadow, with a nice little girl to greet I will stay here every day, shaded by your love so sweet. Now all your love is shading me, like the shadow of a tree When its branches spread above It is joy every day, every minute that I stay In the shadow of your love It's a lovely place to meet In the shade of love so sweet Always with you I will rove Your love is just like a shady grove Everytime I meet with you, in the shadow of love so true When I put my arms around And we face to face do meet, pressing on your lips so sweet. Then the blissful joy is found Never, never will I part From the shadow of your heart No one else so sweet can be As one whose love is shading me I WANT TO BE WITH MY DARLING All the time I want to be There with you and you with me There with you and by your side And then I am satisfied Chorus My darling sweet I long to meet never to say farewell There I will stay through every day and with my darling dwell Every thought I think of you And all of your love so true No one else can take your place Theres no such a lovely face. — (Cho.) With blue eyes and golden hair And a voice so sweet and fair All your love is true I know That is why I love you so. — (Cho.) Them blue eyes can always see Love and kindness all for me That is where I want to go To you a lover true I know. — (Cho.) Not a maiden to be found In all this wide world around Who ever was or can be Half so dear as you to me. — (Cho.) WRITE A SONG All the teachers do request, that you do your very best, then your song will stand the test Write a song, write a song, and all the hungry singers feed,- with such songs as they do need Watch the meter, watch the rhyme, make it sound just like a chime, they will sing it all the time Take your pen just now and write, for the soldier who did fight over there with all his might Write a song, write a song, write a song for the soldier boy, telling him how you wish him joy When your work is all complete, and the soldier boy you meet, you will have a song so sweet Write a song for Christ who died, tell others he was crucified, and with him you will abide Write a song, write a song, write a song for Christ today, be teach- ing others to obey And then Christ you will amaze, when your song in anthem raise, all this world will sing his praise. 24 COMING TODAY Coming today coming today, leaving dark regions of gloom and dismay Now you are taking your cross anew life to begin and leaving the pathway of darkness and sin Now leaving the darkness and coming to light Your robes are a crimson but soon will be white Coming today coming today, children so meek and so weary are they Christ said suffer little children to come unto me, forever and ever in glory to be Fathers and mothers then why will you weep While Christ the dear Savior your children does keep Coming today coming today, forever and forever with Jesus to stay Leaving the vainglory the fashion and pride, and working for Jesus who suffered and died Not turning homeward or making delay But coming to Jesus and coming today THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH (The wages of sin is death, Romans 6:23) The sinner must carry a burdensome load And travel with victims the horrible road Be paid for their toiling along as they go In counterfeit coin of sorrow and woe Chorus No longer delay, but turn now away while drawing this fleeting breath Only begin turn from your sin, for the wages of sin is death. God loves the sinner but sin he does hate Leave sin and its darkness before it's too late For in the dark regions of gloom and despair Deaths angels destroy the people who are there — (Cho.) Satan shows you kingdoms says I will give thee. All these if thou will fall down and worship me Jesus is still pleading now will you repent Or die with demons and then go to torment — (Cho.) 25 GROWING FRUIT We are growing fruit today, to feed pilgrims all the way As we feed them passing by, God will to us multiply And our strength he will renew for the kind deeds that we do Then give wisdom from above if we grow the fruit of love. Oh my brother will you plant such as God to you will grant Then an hundred fold you'll bring make a harvest for the king Plant your fruit in fertile land through temptations it will stand Stand the storm and stand the strife and be like the tree of life Sow the seed of truth and love for the harvest home above You will reap what you have sown by the fruit the tree is known On brambles there no grapes are found nor on thorns do figs abound Only where we work and toil we get good fruits from the soil Do not grow the fruit of sin give you doubt and fears within Cause your heart to burn and ache and your freedom it will take Banish you from peace and joy and your soul it will destroy Into everlasting woe if the fruit of sin you grow. TELL JESUS If temptations surround and snares in your way Tell Jesus, tell Jesus and tell him today For Jesus has traveled the road you are in Like millions of others he will save you from sin Tell it to Jesus he knows all of the road He safely will guide you and carry your load. Chorus Tell Jesus tell Jesus, tell Jesus your troubles tell others his love He safely will guide you to mansions above In deserts so lonely, on mountains so cold Jesus is ready there watching his fold In storm and in tempest where billows do roar Jesus will cease them and bring you to shore Or in the dark valley of sorrow and woe Tell Jesus your troubles wherever you go — (Cho.) 26 When you are in sorrow with grief and distress Go tell it to Jesus and you he will bless He will banish your sorrow cleanse you within Then give joys forever and freedom from sin In songs of his praises in words of his prayer Tell Jesus your trouble your burdens he'll bear — (Cho.) SWINGING IN THE VINE This is love, this is love, shade below and shade above It is fine, it is fine, singing swinging in the vine Like the parrot, like the dove, swinging in the vine of love Sin gand ride, sing and ride, in the shadows we will hide Chorus Swing, swing, swing, swing, in the vine of love to stay Swinging, swinging, joy we are bringing As we swing today We will stay, we will stay in the vine of love at play Here we meet, here we meet, squeezing pleasing one so sweet Let your arms around me twine, while we swing here in the vine In the shade, in the shade, friendship love and bliss is made — (Cho.) Swinging low, swinging low, where the sweetest breezes blow Joy is found, joy is found, holding, folding arms all around Lovely swinging to and fro, with the sweetest girl I know Love so true, love so true, swinging with a girl like you — (Cho.) LOVE Love is the light, that is shining bright, in the face of your lover so true The girl so kind, you surely will find, always has love and kindness for you Love was planted, then friendship granted, there joy and bliss begun That love will grow, till friends will know, both hearts are just like one 27 Love is a vine, that round you will twine, with sweet flowers that never will fade Flowers to greet, the maiden so sweet, is how the beauty of love is made Love is the tune, of flowers in June, when love they sweetly bring The sweet flower blooms every hour while joy and love they buy When love does start it flows in the heart, like rivers that flow to the sea. Then spreading wide, like the ocean tide, true love is flowing for all so free Love wide and deep, where our lovers sleep, when they reach dreamland shore. In loveland sweet where lovers meet never to part no more. DREAMING OF THE GIRL IN DREAMLAND Every night in dreamland bright with this little girl I roam The girl does stay here every day in the dreamland is her home. When we do meet, the girl does greet — then love and kindness show The girl so fair, is waiting there every time I go Oh joy to dream, of silver stream where you and I will ride There we will float, in our little boat out on the crystal tide I dream of you my dream is true and with you I will stay There in the dreamland, I hold your hand until the break of day; And then in love, just like the dove — that moans in yonder tree Every day, I am away you always moan for me When until the shade, at night is made then to dreamland I sail And there I meet, with the girl so sweet in dreamlands lovely vale Oh sweet the sound that falls around says come come here and see. Then I will go, and she will show the fields of love to me. The fields of bliss, we never miss in dreamlands country fair. And there I find, love true and kind and joy beyond compare. My eyes may close, and sweet repose will flow the joyful stream. Please will you go, where love does flow be with me in my dream. 28 THE RESCUE OF LILLIE (Not a true fact, only the imagination of such a thing.) I went away, to the river one day a lillie down there weep The lily did wave, saying come and save me from the water cold and deep I got the flower, before water could devour and carried it to the land When we did meet, the lillie did greet as I held it in my hand Chorus Rescue me, rescue me, rescue me, this is what the lillie told At the river she did quiver, in the water deep and cold. The wind was blowing, and the wild waves flowing when the little girl called for me Now please will you, come help me through I am here at the river you see My heart did quiver, when I saw her at the river and the river was rising too I went there quick, through the brambles thick and I brought the lillie through Lillie was there, out in the sun so fair away from the river on a ridge. She wanted to be, where she could see her papa on the railroad bridge. He rolled care back, on the railroad track but the bridge he could not save. When the bridge went down, water covered the town then Lillie was in the wave. THE Wn,DERNESS VALLEY The altar by the hedge, wave their tags of gold While holly bushes luster, with berries red they hold' The honeysuckle growing, and round the hollies twine The elm birch and willows all blooming with the vine. Way down in the valley, the trees are ever green From the distant hilltops their beauty can be seen 29 There in the densely woodland, a wilderness we find Where trees and vines grow lovely, and flowers of every kind. 'Tis a wilderness so lovely, everything complete The trees are filled with garlands and flowers bloom so sweet Every thing so pleasant, just like the land of love The green earth spread beneath and flowers sweet above. LOVING MY DARLING I have waited all the day, then no longer could I stay Now my darling I must see, who has waited here for me My arms round a girl like you, and your arms around me too Tell it tell it if you please help me love you help me squeeze Chorus I am busy now loving my darling so true Help me to love you yes help me please do. A girl somewhere kind and true, gives love sweet as honey dew If you guess who it could be guess the one so close to me Closer closer then we meet telling love true and sweet It is love that will unite and fill our hearts with delight. — (Cho.) Ruby please will you help me I am busy as a bee Whispering love soft and low to the sweetest girl I know- Awhile I tell it now to you tell me something sweet and true I will give you sweet employ fill your heart with love and joy (Cho.) WHAT IS LOVE. What is love, what is love, oh my brother, do yon know God is love, God is love, will you harken to His call Love is just our guide and leader and the righteous way will show. He will safely guide you homeward and will save you from the fall. Love will lead to living waters guide you to that home above He will lead you to His mansion up above the sitarry sky. If you want to see the Savior follow in the way of love Where the fountain flows so freely in that home of bliqssed on high. Norwood, N. C. DAVID PHILEMON. 30 INDEX. Page Christmas Bells Will Always Ring 5 Clear Creek b Close to You and Close to Me V Coming Today 25 Craig Philmon in the Haunted Home 20 Dreaming of the Girl in Dreamland 28 Driving the Stake of Steadfastness lo Friendships Are Passing By 3 From Your Face I Am Not Hiding 6 Glory to God, I Have Found It. 4 Got the Flu 13 Growing Fruit 26 Hang Them on a Sour Apple Tree 13 In the Land of the Living 14 In the Road of Love 9 In the shadow of Love 23 In the War of Influenza 18 I Want to be With My Darling 23 Just Across the Alley 22 Keep Busy 6 King Fisher 16 Love 27 Love That Will Not Fade [. . . 8 Love My Darling ,^u McAdoo 12 Peter's Diamond Brand Shoes 21 Rescue of the Lillie 29 Ruby, the Jewel I Love , 7 Somebody Loves You and Somebody Loves Me 8 Sweet Home Somewhere 4 Swinging in the Vine 27 The Drunkards Song 9 Tell Jesus 26 The Vine of Love 3 The Wages of Sin is Death 25 The Wilderness Valley , 29 Waiting For the Trumpet 22 Wave the Temperance banner 5 Write a Song ; 24 What is Love 30 31