Reminiscence (Irwin)
REMINISCENCE.
WHEN many years we'd been apart
I met Sad Jim ashore,
And set to talkin' heart to heart
About the days o' yore.
"Do you recall them happy days?"
"I don't," says Jim; "do you?"
I speaks up hearty, and I says,
Be jiggered if I do!"
"Then why are you recallin' of
The joyful days gone by,
The songs and girls we used to love?"
"What songs and girls?" says I.
"I guess I have fergot," says Jim,
And started N. N. E.
It seems I had the best of him
And him the best of me.
Wallace Irwin.
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