In the mighty gallery of pictures There're that are painted from life, Scenes of and of beauty, of hardship and strife, Scenes of and of plenty, Old age and the blushing bride, on the wall - but the saddest of all Is a pictures from other side.
A picture from other side has fell by the way And a life has gone out the tide That have been happy someday Some poor at home Is watching and a-waiting Longing to hear - her loved one so dear a picture from life's other side.
Now the first scene is one of two Their paths them both led One in luxury and riches And the one begged for his bread One night they met on the "Your or life, sir", one cried And with his knife - took his own brother's life That's a from life's other side.
The next is that of a gambler Who had lost all his money at An' he draws his dead mother's ring from his That she wore long ago on her day his last earthly treasure, but he stakes it Then he bows his head his shame he may hide But, when lifted his head - they found he was dead That's a picture from life's side.
Now the last scene is down by the Of a heart-broken and babe In the harbor light glare see shiver that no one will save Once she was once a true Somebody's and pride God her, she leaps - for there's no one to weep a picture from life's other side.