Our Children's Songs With Illustrations

200 Children's Song Lyrics, incuding Christian Hymns - online songbook

	174	SONGS FOR BOYHOOD.
	THE LAST LEAF. Oliver Wendell Holmes. I saw him once before, As he passed by the door; And again The pavement-stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground, With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruuing-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now be walks the streets, Aud he looks at all he meets, Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone."		The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said� Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago� That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is in his back. Aud a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin