Comet and Other Verses

<h2><SPAN name="Jim_the_Newsboy" id="Jim_the_Newsboy">Jim, the Newsboy</SPAN></h2> <p class="p2 poem">Jim, the newsboy, died today,<br/> So the evening papers say&#8212;<br/> And the funeral will be<br/> In the afternoon at three&#8212;<br/> "Please" (the papers say) "a flow'r<br/> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</SPAN></span> Bring for Jim before the hour&#8212;<br/> Any color that you deem<br/> A true token of esteem,<br/> If you would remember him&#8212;<br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The newsboy, Jim.</span><br/></p> <p class="poem p1">At his corner near Broad street,<br/> Jim, tho' lame, would smiling greet<br/> With a merry, winning call<br/> All his patrons, great and small,<br/> And his fellow newsboys say<br/> That they miss him much today,<br/> And they have a tablet bought,<br/> And upon it this is wrought:<br/> "In memory of Newsboy Jim,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">We all liked him."</span><br/></p> <p class="poem p1">Little toilers on Life's road<br/> To yon visionless abode,<br/> There was much of good in Jim<br/> Or the boys had disliked him;<br/> There was something in his heart<br/> That drew patrons to his mart,<br/> Something noble, something true&#8212;<br/> Strive that it be said of you<br/> As in eulogy of Jim,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">"We all liked him."</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="p3"><ANTIMG style="width: 89px; height: 50px;" alt="" src="images/leaf.jpg" /></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />