Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 557
THEY DROVE HIM FROM THE TOWN. For laugh he would throughout the year,Let things go wrong or right; Let Fortune smile or Fortune frown,His heart was ever light. 544 THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER. And little children every dayWould gather round his place To listen to his hearty laughOr see his smiling… … 1 NOW CHILDREN SEEKING AFTER JOEWOULD ROUND THE RUINS STRAY. But gloomy-minded people saidThey thought it was a shame A man should be disposed to laughAt good and bad the same. At last they gathered in a crowdAnd pulled his dwelling down; They hustled him around the streetsAnd drove him from the…
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