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Golden Treasury of Poetry and Song

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Golden Treasury of Poetry and Song

A Complete Fireside Cyclopedia Of The Best Verse In The English Language.Over Thirteen Hundred Complete Poems By Nearly Two hundred Noted Authors

Comprising

The Best Poems of the Most Famous Writers for Four Centuries,English and American. Including Poems of Humor,Pathos, Patriotism,Nature,Religion and Sentiment. Arranged Under Appropriate Division,with Author and Subject Index and Explanatory Notes

Compiled And Edited by Henry T. Coates

Profusely Illustrated

With Special Duograph Engravings And Portraits

Published 1905 by W.E.Skull

Large 4to In Highly Decorative Full Olive and Gilt Lettered Cloth Hardcover,,Decorative Pastedowns and Endpages,,Complete Contents

Note.–there are 920 pages in this book,including Illustrations not paged,and 32 pages of Contents and Indexes folioed with Roman numerals.

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Slow Dance

Slow Dance

by David Weatherford

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Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic
flight? Or gazed at the sun into
the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say hi
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your
day, It is like an unopened
gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

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