Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-11


Indeed, we deem it useful
To seour up the gun,
To laugh some little Yankee laughs
Which make all hearing run,
As though the Bulls of Bashap
Want believing for fun,-
To burn a little powder,
And walk little prouder,
And shout little louder,
And make believe we're free,
Though what the real fact is,
Let's stop just here and see.
Sleeping. dressing, eating, drinking,
As more or less we may;
Thinking, speaking, yes believing
This Independence Day;
iIearing, seeing, all agreeing,
While the trumpets bray;
Laughing, smiling, sneering
At the poets jingling lay;
Old matrOns, men and girls and boys,
Young men and maidens gay,
Though voices fail to speak or sing
What all would sing or say,
The raphosdies traditi onal,
And - Hail Columbia ~
We all are veriest yassals,
Under utter rule and sway
Of tvrants, from whom Bills of RightE,
And spilling John Bulls tea
At Boston town, and blood withal,
On land and on the sea
Now near a rounded century
Have never set us free.
Still everywhere they have US,
Now softly by the throat,
I'm tie and color OF crayat,
In stvlc and make Of coat,
Now gently by the forelock
10 dressing Of our hair.
Ia wig and curl and chignOn
If we haven any there;
Again in daily rcaping
OF our tcraZOTed chIns,-
And adding thus prolaneness
To our many other SINS
Bur in our great discomfort
10 face distorting grins,
We're so9thed by the assurance.
That Fashions better know.
Than even benignant Nature
While hair ought to grow
Again within our burly fist
They place a queer shaped fork,
With which we are as awkward
AS If Just from County Cork.
Yet S nee re bound to use it.
We make believe we know,
just now the iour-tined silver thing
To our lips agape should GO
They make the t0ulcst smoke pipes
Oh mouths and nasal fues
And teeth like ancient tombstones
o- whoever smokes or cheWs.
Ne need sheet IRON Inning OF
s course Of tire brick
l' endure rom " "uisAey PuhChes
To sparkling clear Heidsck.-
BuL these are minor items
loo trivial to detail
And scarcely worth the mention
save when the enormous tail,
Let Dolly Nardcus therefore,
Ana All such triies pass,
as tarmcr7 do with spring poor stock
Let turn en- out TO grass
bclalhH E9l rather IN these times.
ln what a 4o.orOus Tx
!" hud ourselves All over
because ID f1litcs--
suppose We feel a yearniDg
lv may sc not quite freely IN
t. - 5-d hat ami boots and all
anu shout Aurrah Tor Greeley
b.iore our yearnins Is hall yearned
HE Party says you shan t.
AND sense ot Fitness possibly
1od ought % - Tor Grant.
E want q tariff 70 keep out
Each foreign crop and chattel.
P.sigau, salt and what not,
From poultry up to cattle,
Ye-. everything that can compete
" 10Th cherished Yankee notions.
From Canada and Mexico
And lands bcvond the oceans,
But Freedom ought to mean Free Trade
Buv where YOU can the cheapest,
And something more than now three days,
Free coffee baa and tea chest
I.su,fr to mean you're free to sleep
and cat and drink al i,bitun
Bit blue Dg-uepsia. Death and Hell
All -hoar AS one .. Prohibit EN- 80
We can't be President two terms.
Or sue.-,ye don't mean Greeley
Or Governor. or ANYTHING.
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