POEMS AND SONGS 
by
Will S. HAYS.

Louisville, KY:
CHAS. T. DEARING.
1895.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, by
			CHAS. T. DEARING,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
 
Electrotyped
BY ROBERT ROWELL,
Louisville, KY.


			TO MY FRIENDS.

	If I have done wrong in publishing this book,
forgive me.
			Yours truly,
				Will. S. Hays.


			DEDICATION.

It gives me pleasure to dedicate this little
		volume to my fiend,
		W. N. HALDEMAN, Esq.

I have two Friends I dearly love,
  With fond affection true;
One dwells in Heaven, one on earth--
  One God, the other you.

And when you go to God's great gate,
  As you will surely do,
May angels with their sweetest songs
  Be there to welcome you.

For you have been a friend to me--
  The best I ever knew,
And in my heart there is a place
  Of tender love for you.

As down toward the door of Death
  My journer I pursue,
I'll never cease to think
  Of such a friend as you.

May God among His matchless crowns,
  Select one the choicest two;
Save one for me, and then reserve
  The brightest one for you.

			THE AUTHOR.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
[from pages 154-156]
[alphabetized without
page number references]

A Mother's Tears
A New Leaf Turned
A Woman
Angel of My Dreams
"Angels, Meet Me at the Cross Roads"
Aunt Jane and Uncle Jim
Beautiful Girl of the South
Betty and the Baby
Bill Birch
"Birdie"
Bob Reilly
"Come Unto Me"
Dat Ole Mule an' Me
De Cabin in de Lane
De Busted Ball
De Little Old Log Cabin in de Woods
Don't Forget Me
Down by the Deep, Sad Sea
Down in de Co'n Fiel'
Driven From Home
Evangeline
"Falling Off"
Girl of the Period
Go, Sin No More
Go! I Forgive You
God's Little Girl
Good-Bye! Baby Darling
Good-Bye, Old Home
Happy
His Last Trip
Huckleberry Hawkins Preaches to "Women Only"
Huldy Hawkin's Ball
I Have No Home
I Love You, Josephine
I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers
I'm Waiting for You, Nora
Insured
Jess
"Keep in de Middle ob de Road"
Lines to Mary
Lines to My Son
Lis'en to Me
Little Boy, Don't Cry
Little Sam
"Mandy"
Mary
Misses Doolin's Ball
"Mollie Darling"
My Boy
My Dear Old Sunny Home
Nora O'Neal
O, Let Me Kiss the Baby
O'Grady's Goat
Old-Fashioned Roses Are Sweetest
Old Friends
Old Hayseed to His Son Si
Old Hayseed's First Love
Old Hayseed's Home
Old Hayseed's Railroad Idea of Life
Old Hayseed Talks to Si
Old Master
Old Si's Christmas Eve at Home
One Hundred Years Ago
Only a Dream
Roll Out, Heave Dat Cotton
Save One Bright Crown for Me
Shamus O'Brien
She Wasn't In It
Signal Bells at Sea
"Sleeping Lilies"
Susan Jane
Sweet Bess, O' Bonnie Doon
Sweet Charity
Sweet Violets
Take This Letter to My Mother
That Cottage Home of Dan's
The Boy Girl
The Little White Cap
The Modern Meetin' House
The Moon Is Out To-night, Love
The New Magdalen
The New Woman
The Old House
The Parlor Pet
The Penitent's Prayer
The Sinner's Appeal
The Song of the Old Banjo
The Widow's Christmas Eve
The Wolf at the Door
Then and Now
To Emma
Tongue
Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. Laura Monsarrat
Wandering Refugee
When I Am Gone
When the Snow Begins to Fall
Who Cares?
Who Tied That Crape On the Door
Write a Letter from Home
"You, Only You"