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- The Old Homestead + (<div class="poem"> <p>Nothing can make our heart so warm,<br /> As visions of where we first were born,<br /> As the memory of that first Christmas tree,<br /> Where the old homestead used to be. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>Now she seemed to breathe deeper, see farther. Again she came from unbroken prairie into wheat country and large towns. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>Now that she had something to do, Claire became patient. "Run out of gas. Isn't it lucky I got that can for an extra gallon?" </p> </div>)
- Clark Street Bridge + (<div class="poem"> <p>Now. . .<br /> . . Only stars and mist<br /> A lonely policeman,<br /> Two cabaret dancers,<br /> Stars and mist again,<br /> No more feet or wheels,<br /> No more dust and wagons. </p> </div>)
- Spring in California + (<div class="poem"> <p>O, the key to much that the world loves best<br /> Can be found beside the way,<br /> If your motor sings you a joyous song<br /> At the dawn of a bright spring day. </p> </div>)
- Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway + (<div class="poem"> <p>October, 1914. </p> </div>)
- Safety in Conversation + (<div class="poem"> <p>Of God each took a different stand,<br /> Divided on Nature, Spirit and Man,<br /> While one did declare God didn’t exist,<br /> The good-natured bunch has since been missed. </p> </div>)
- The Morning Stars + (<div class="poem"> <p>Of old the psalmist said that the morning stars sing together,<br /> He said the rocks do sing and that the hills rejoice... </p> </div>)
- The Mountains + (<div class="poem"> <p>Of the peaks around both high and low,<br /> The one we favor most is San Antonio.<br /> We like to go up there whene'er we can,<br /> It's easy in a Studebaker Six Sedan. </p> </div>)
- The Road of Human Life + (<div class="poem"> <p>Oh! it is all that Hope can do<br /> To keep lifted our eyes<br /> And day by day our strength renew<br /> With visions and dream-lies;<br /> To lead us by that awful flood<br /> From which no soul may rise. </p> </div>)
- Safety in Conversation + (<div class="poem"> <p>On most every subject when men don’t agree,<br /> They smile, shake hands and part cheerfully.<br /> There’s danger in topics of soul and heart,<br /> Talk Six Studebaker and friends you will part. </p> </div>)
- The Mountains + (<div class="poem"> <p>On mountain height both east and west,<br /> For every living mortal there is rest.<br /> We view the peaks in contemplation<br /> Of God's great plan for all creation. </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>On that understanding, I paid him twenty dollars. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>On the hill five miles to eastward, a line of dust, then a small car. As it approached, the driver must have sighted her and increased speed. He came up at thirty-five miles an hour. </p> </div>)
- Get there if you can and see the land you were once proud to own + (<div class="poem"> <p>On the sopping esplanade or from our dingy lodgings we <br /> Stare out dully at the rain which falls for miles into the sea. </p> </div>)
- XXII + (<div class="poem"> <p>On the sopping esplanade or from our dingy lodgings we <br /> Stare out dully at the rain which falls for miles into the sea. </p> </div>)
- Free Air + (<div class="poem"> <p>Once, skittering along by dark, he realized that the halted car which he had just passed was the Gomez. He thought he heard a shout behind him, but in a panic he kept going. </p> </div>)
- Quatrains + (<div class="poem"> <p>One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar,<br /> To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star;<br /> It lies with thee—the choice is thine, is thine,<br /> To hit the ties or drive thy auto-car. </p> </div>)
- Indignation and Jubilation + (<div class="poem"> <p>One second more and he’d done ninety,<br /> The cops they worked it almost nightly.<br /> No show our friend would ever get<br /> When face to face the judge he met. </p> </div>)
- Clean Curtains + (<div class="poem"> <p>One way was an oyster pail factory, one way they made candy, one way paper boxes, strawboard cartons. </p> </div>)
- Westward Hoboes + (<div class="poem"> <p>Only one incident marred our satisfaction with the morning's work; we discovered, on saying farewell to Reggi, that we had been calling him by his first name! </p> </div>)
- Days of Opportunity + (<div class="poem"> <p>Opportunities once flew thick and fast,<br /> In years far in the distant past,<br /> You'll know they are here today, instead,<br /> If you read the lives of men that are dead. </p> </div>)
- Brown’s Descent or, the Willy-Nilly Slide + (<div class="poem"> <p>Or even thought of standing there<br /> Until the January thaw<br /> Should take the polish off the crust.<br /> He bowed with grace to natural law, </p> </div>)
- XXII + (<div class="poem"> <p>Or, in friendly fireside circle, sit and listen for the crash <br /> Meaning that the mob has realized something’s up, and start to smash; </p> </div>)
- Get there if you can and see the land you were once proud to own + (<div class="poem"> <p>Or, in friendly fireside circle, sit and listen for the crash <br /> Meaning that the mob has realized something’s up, and start to smash; </p> </div>)
- Indignation and Jubilation + (<div class="poem"> <p>Our friend, to us he did confide<br /> That motor cops would have to ride.<br /> No more hiding by the road,<br /> No more chance our friend to goad. </p> </div>)
- Our Support + (<div class="poem"> <p>Our labor should always be well directed,<br /> No slighting for cause to be rejected.<br /> Genius may all great works begin,<br /> Labor’s the thing that makes them win. </p> </div>)
- The Bridge: VII The Tunnel + (<div class="poem"> <p>Our tongues recant like beaten weather vanes.<br /> This answer lives like verdigris, like hair<br /> Beyond extinction, surcease of the bone;<br /> And repetition freezes—“What </p> </div>)
- In a Breath + (<div class="poem"> <p>Outside in the street is the murmur and singing of life in the sun—horses, motors, women trapsing along in flimsy clothes, play of sun-fire in their blood. </p> </div>)