Walt Mason Poems

Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair,
and the way that lion mauled him was decidedly unfair;
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There's a man in the world who is never turned down,
Wherever he chances to stray;
he gets the glad hand in the populous town,
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I read the papers every day, and oft encounter tales
which show there's hope for every jay who in life's battle fails.
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There are lands beyond the ocean which are gray beneath their years,
where a hundred generations learned to sow and reap, and spin;
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