Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-11-18
PO H II R Y
For the Columbia Gazette.
THE PICK AND TEE SPADE.
BIZ q. MILLER.

THE PICK AND TEE SPADE.
BIZ q. MILLER.
Two things of quite simple and easy construc-
Have raised, in the world, stupendous pro-
For "double quick time" grand State has
been made,
And all by the use Of the pick and the spade.
Then hurrah for the pick and hurrah for the
spade!
Aud hurrah for the State which these imple-
ments made!
Let them talk of their wars in the far Eastern
OF their fleets and their armies, so grand and
sublime,
Not the saber's bright CLEAN, nor the loud
cannonade,
Can move on the world like the pick and the
spade.
Then hurrah for the pick and hurrah for the
spade!
And hurrah for the increment these simple
things made!
When these tools were first piled on Pacific s
fair shore,
And disclosed the rich mines of the bright
golden ore,
The world, much excited with fortunes mot
made,0
Sent her delegates here with the pick and the
spade.
Then hurrah for the pick and hurrah for the
spade
And hurrah for the fortunes since then have
been made!
From the States DER beyond the big noun.
tains it drew
A host of their sons who were faithful and
true,
And the basis of Liberty's Empire they laid,
In this wilderness cline, by the pick and the
spade.
Then hurrah for the pick! and hurrah for the
spade!
And hurrah for the basis the Yankee Boys
laid!
Old France sends her sons from the land of the
Who make themselves merry DER cup Of
their wine:
Like others, their fortunes are yet to be made
And they come to try luck with the pick and
the spade.
Then hurrah for old France for we nc'cl
should forget
The day when she sent us her brave Lafayette
The Dutchman comes, too, all the way from
his home,
Intent in this wild golden country to roam;
| He has there labOred hard, and fortune moi
made,
And "py colt" he II "try luck nit de pick
and de spade"
| Then hurrah for the Dutchman! he's brave
| pioneer,
| And his way through the wilderness safe ht
will steer.
Pat fathers along from the Isle that is green
From Dublin or Galway, or old Skibereen,-
And he brings along with him an arm stou
| and strong,
For TO swing these utensils through all the day
long.
Then hurrah for the green Isle bright gem o
! the sea!
| And her sons who inhabit the land of the
free!"
Old China "broke loose" through her gate.
and her walls,
And her people IN clouds come like darl
thunder squalls"
They are not SO good looking" as some 9th
er grade,
But they, too, can work with the pick and the
spade.
with long ques,
And her damsels who sport in their big wood
en- shoes!
From Chill they come, and likewise from
And from our near neighbor, old Mexico, too
They are not much " enlightened" who come
| from these chimes,
But the Yankees can whip them along with
the times.
Then hurrah for the Yankees, who, with picl
and with spade,
The foundation of Freedoms bright Empir.
laid
From the north and the south, from the cas-
| and the west,
In hopes that with plenty they here may b
blest,
| And from all the countries that God ever made
They come for to handle the pick and th'
| spade.
Then hurrah and hurrah! and hurrah al
| around!
For the boys who sustain all by digging til,
| ground
COLUMBIA, Nov. 1854.