Anonymous Americas

No one can know the potential,
Of a life that is committed to win;
With courage - the challenge it faces,
To achieve great success in the end

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For wonder wroth is þe Wy3þat wro3t alle þinges W...

If all our life were one broad
Of sunlight, clear, unclouded;
If all our path were smooth and fair,
By no soft gloom enshrouded;

A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,
Having drunk so much he could drink no more;
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain To dream that he rode on a hell-bound train
The engine with murderous blood was damp And was brilliantl...

Once upon a midnight chilling, as I held my feet unwillingO'er a tub of scalding water, at a heat of ninety-four;
Nervously a toe in dipping, dripping, slipping, then out-skipping,
Suddenly there came a ripping whipping, at my chamber's ...

I know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing, And the summer sends kisses by beautiful May —Oh
to see all the treasures the spring is bestowing, And think my boy Willie enlisted today
It seems but a day since at twilight, low hummin...

The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day,
Suddenly we heard a rattling, as of serious hosts a-battling, as they mingled in the fray
"What is that
" we cried, upstarting,...