In the world's gallery of pictures scenes that are painted from life, Scenes of and of beauty, of hardship and strife, Scenes of and of plenty, Old age and the young bride, Hang on the - but the saddest of all Is a pictures from other side.
A picture from life's other has fell by the way And a life has out with the tide That might have been happy Some poor at home Is and a-waiting alone Longing to hear - her loved one so dear a picture from life's other side.
Now the scene is one of two brothers Their paths both diff'rently led One lived in luxury and And the other one begged for his One they met on the highway "Your or life, sir", one cried And with his knife - took his own brother's life a picture from life's other side.
The next scene is of a gambler Who had lost all his at play An' he his dead mother's ring from his finger That she long ago on her wedding day his last earthly treasure, but he stakes it Then he bows his head that his shame he may But, when they lifted his head - they found he was That's a picture from other side.
Now the last is down by the river Of a heart-broken and babe In the harbor light glare see shiver Outcasts no one will save Once she was once a true Somebody's and pride God help her, she leaps - for there's no one to That's a from life's other side.