The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-12-20
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tion at their annual meeting at Chattanooga, Nov.
3th, 1921
3RorHERs-vith pens sharp as the sword Of cortes
lhghtiest Of weapons in your wordy war
Whose inks pleasant, pungeIt alua-fortIss
syrup 20 sOOthe-or vitrol to mar:
sincs q Ia 11JTteoiae is all the fashion,
Whatever wit or wisdom we may lack y
We choose our subject by the "rHling PASSION"
So mine 81 blAck-unutterably black;
In truth so black IS any curly kink
Upon the head Of EFebus-'tis =" Printers Ink"
You have your faults, ''they say"-Cbut that's be-
"a They say1 You Sometimes tremble in your tracks
And let old Bachus, and his friend Silonus,
:. Back you,@ 6y laying you on your backs
But brave 80 BoheInians, - and dearest ''Druids
The world perhaps should prize you none the less,
Because, though you are powerful fond OF |
Could it have any. wine, without the Press?
Aud then, of all huidities, the pink
Is your creaton-namely 81 Printers 90 Ink"
The days Of Ed had many potent liquor,
Unless the " Old Re-li-q6ien of History lies
Dranghts that would drown your "seven senses"
Though you are sage as Solomon the Wise.
Queen Cleopatria's pearl dissolved in acid,
For instance, as beverage rather raw,
Scathing TO tender throat, and muscle facid
As " jersey lightning" taken through straw
1t must have made the lady blench and blink
Like parties v5trOlized with 81 Printers Ink"
There was the draught that finished Alexander,
The princely potentate, almost divine
To speak of that catastrophe with candOr,
The world drowned within cup Of wine
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Connection with warmer world to-day,
(Say some supernal medium, spiTitualistie,)
We IOO1tLR ind out what Aleck had to say,
The Conquoror would rap with realizing wink,
''You bet!' faint half 50 hot as Printers Ink
Then comes the ca1stic-loving Queen OF Caria,
Who drank her husbands ashes in her vine
"Drapn Of such H.kai I'd take IN miI ?,
Al sorts Of matrimonial caustic is unpleasant,
And flies, like contradiction, to yoUr head
This Queens example wouldn't do ct present
She drank her husband after he was dead;
To take the concentrated Lye" Of Printers Ink
| There was the wine Of sweet Lucretia Borga,
potent sangaree to stop the breath
| Or, dixie the - code of honor down in Georgis,)
A sherry-cobbler brewed by certain Death.
Lucretia's backberries "a were slightly " pison,"
| But her beneyoience ~ was grand and rich,
| She treated" friends with her peculiar hysou,
And wasn't troubled any more with sich.'
/ But-were she living now, other drink
/ Would suit her gentle charities, like Printer 3
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| There were the slashing scandinavian heroes
| Gay Vikings " sloshing round" in tuC-ike hulls-
| As fun Of fun as any hddling Neros,
| Who drank each others health from CORY skulls.
Rough as the wide and rushing seas they rode in,
! Drinking the blood of enemies like mead,
! When quafiug claret-cup to Thor and Odin-
| A bitter, battle beverage indeed:
| And yet-twas - not q circumstance" think,
To gall that sometimes seasons - Printers Ink
In latter days IRE had a brew would stagger
! Lucretias self, and Cesar Borgia both
patriotic prison. poisoned lager,
| Denominated dam-I mean the Cdtb.'
| The drink not at all Anacreon;ic,
Rather chalybeate-at least twas 3. iroI-clad,7
A liberal dose would give the great Propontic
| ''Black vonito''-fuRereally bad
But 10! oar patriots noby lined themselves with
And swallowed Tin gulp8 Of Printers Ink!"
o,o we have drinks that would distract AIcawber-
| The a. SaHiau bowl" that Byron sings about
Counterfeit a. comet wines, and crude Catawba,
Champagne-aith neither - sham" "pain" lef
Brews that bring on the inevitable " hic oh ~
And such as that adored by GIlpin's epouse-
Dashing, deceptive, dancing e widow CHquot,"
Their special = mission" in the world, think,
To muddle men, and palsy . Printers Ink
In Noah's day the world was drowned with water,
The story OF the Patriarch chad oughteC-
Teach US a lesson-tIid we so incline.
Water it seems, could take him over seas,
But wine could only keep him 81 half seas over"
! I never "a DOiIi5 q moral"-if you please
The morals there-a little under cover.
For you're all Noah's, floating on the brink
OF small deluge-hoods Of g Printers mkt
We're now in hattanooga-tpleasant city 9
The Indian name * said to mean Look OUT
Or, should you deem 8 forei2Eil language pretty,
Ills "ITepez 0drd !" lake care what your
If then on seas Of circumstance you've aoun
If on the brine the storm has laid you fiat
In g0iHg deeps, like Noah, are you houndered?
=. Loot ant 81 your watchWord and your Ararat!
/ Far looming, like the 81 hills of Never-sink,"
To all who stem the surge Of " Printers Ink"
Through the dim By-gore rolled G famous river,
Pactolus-'tTas old Midas bath were told,
| He made the shining waves with silver shiy-T,
And freighted all its sands with lucid gold.
% Look out ~ with courage and brave endurance
Seek the bright sands, aud don't pretend t" p.
4 Ashamed of tive may with full assurance
See foT and yet not be Phar-j-see;
/ So look and listeD-and yoUU hear the cliuk
OF gold upon the shore Of" Printers Ink
, Loot outs your PhaTos, with its watch-hre
warning Sonr vessels OF that fatal shore,
Where men lie dazed and dGsallless, broken
bighted,
Drunken with Circe's popped Iuandrugore.
In lotos-lands the ssybarite re- poses,
Yet cold Charybsis underneat h 1t yawns-
And Pleesure's Eaestuna, spite OF ali its roses
Ia watered by the deadly Soils Fons;
y In whose hot depths your energies must sink
Beyond red ,Hil.5ton-lost to Printers Ink
Look outs the watch-word-ever calm an
Bending TO neither king nor kaiser's nod
= Standing like stalwgrt champions ever ready
| Nobly 20 work for Igan-aud so for God
Let hearts Pc 3;il;l, aJ every head be " levei,"
e Then, if the life be right, and honor true,
1 No fear OF drifting downward to the devil
: mean OF cpGrse,-te one that Duets lUjth yOU
Or, tae ''ills-SOluparable' imp who scoCns
shrink,
T Shoulder to shoulder IIesolute resistance
To WRoNG-and trample it beneath your feet
: Side by side, in brotEerly assistance
= Teaching Humanity strong pulses how to beat!
Arm for the RIGHT! Close up-add "no EuTrel
Show to your fellows in tine hercest fight
! How royal manhood in supreme spiendor
4 | Becomes true HonOrs gallant Red Cross Knight
y Staunch IL your sable armOr-ink on link,
\. Stand forth to rule the world-with " brains"
- Printers IHk.'
S L. VIRGINIA French