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Jim, the newsboy, died today, / So the evening papers say -- / And the funeral will be / In the afternoon at three -- / "Please" (the papers say) "a flow'r / Bring for Jim before the hour -- / Any color that you deem / A true token of esteem, / If you would remember him -- / The newsboy, Jim.
At his corner near Broad street, / Jim, tho' lame, would smiling greet / With a merry, winning call / All his patrons, great and small, / And his fellow newsboys say / That they miss him much today, / And they have a tablet bought, / And upon it this is wrought: / "In memory of Newsboy Jim, / We all liked him."
Little toilers on Life's road / To yon visionless abode, / There was much of good in Jim / Or the boys had disliked him; / There was something in his heart / That drew patrons to his mart, / Something noble, something true -- / Strive that it be said of you / As in eulogy of Jim, / "We all liked him."