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on the line to dry. She wint to take it in at night, But stopped to have a cry. The sleeves av two red flannel shirts, That once were worn by Pat, Were chewed off almost to the neck. O'Grady's goat doon that. They had a party at McCune's, An' they wor having foon, Whin suddinly there was a crash An' ivrybody roon. The iseter soup fell on the floor An' nearly drowned the cat; The stove was knocked to smithereens. O'Grady's goat doon that. Moike Dyle was coortin' Biddy Shea, Both standin' at the gate, An' they wor just about to kiss Aich oother sly and shwate. They coom togither loike two rams. An' mashed their noses flat. They niver shpake whin they goes by. O'Grady's goat doon that. O'Hoolerhan brought home a keg Av dannymite wan day To blow a cistern in his yard An' hid the stuff away. But suddinly an airthquake coom, O'Hoolerhan, house an' hat, An' ivrything in sight wint up. O'Grady's goat doon that. An' there was Dooley's Savhin's Bank, That held the byes' sphare cash. One day the news came doon the sthreet The bank had gone to smash. An' ivrybody 'round was dum Wid anger and wid fear, Fer on the dhoor they red the whords, "O'Grady's goat sthruck here." The folks in Grady's naborhood All live in fear and fright; They think it's certain death to go Around there after night. An' in their shlape they see a ghost Upon the air afloat, An' wake thimselves by shoutin' out: "Luck out for Grady's goat." _Will S. Hays._ The Burial of Moses "And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day." By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab There lies a lonely grave, And no man knows that sepulchre, And no man saw it e'er, For the angels of God upturn'd the sod And laid the dead man there. That was the grandest funeral That ever pass'd on earth; But no man heard the trampling, Or saw the train go forth-- Noiselessly as the daylight Comes back when night is done, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek Grows into the great sun. Noiselessly as the springtime Her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills Open their thousand leaves; So without sound of music, Or voice of them that wept, Silently down from the mountain's crown The great procession swept. Perchance
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