Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-17
EsOMULUS O,PIKE.
His Strange Acts and Doings.
PART j

PART i.
RomOlus 0Pike, as the readers may know.
Was circus actor in q great show
What came of O'Pike you'll probably see
FOR advancement OF things he seemed to agree!
Pike used TO be plumber in a carpenter's shop
but the foreman pronounced him miserable fop,
And accordingly foreman abandoned Sir Pike,
Ana pOt II another whose name was p. Spike.
spike used to be corporal in military way,
but spike couldn't be corporal every day,
so he, too, turned plumber and rooted out P,
Anu, uladdened at this, Pike actor would be
Pike piked himself up to the first circus man
l,s' happened to pass through his sin-cursed land
AND proposed TO be an actor of much worthy note
Bus N history profane he was less than q mote!
Pixies regard for the laws of activity was small
For, seeing, he saw he was no actor at al,
FOR when he went up he came down with a crash,
And that Is why foreman said Pike WAS rash.
sir Pike, as actor, was not a success,
For what he attempted was murderous mess,
For once a time he wound round the roller
Falling, lost all belief in the system that's solar!
Pike gave mp the scheme, as he ought to have done
Twas evident 10 HIM he WIS not quite the one
To ''sWing round the circle;r Nasty has said:
= rs much better alive than to be half dead~
THIS Snowman OF grit sent him home 10 friend.
This proved 10 Sir Pike perfect Godsend;
FoC lbs spinal column had become rigidly rigid
Ana hlS heart had become quite frozen and frigi6
PART IL
Wherein he takes notion to sail down the river
III search cf q fair one, which he fails to find.
Genteutnent was not in Pike, to be sure:
Ills pant 70 be great while he so obscure,
killed him dead a flower in an October frost,
And i came 10 this fish to pay all the costl
Pixies predcAmeut quite sad case,
For hrs heart almost broke with the length of his
face;
B4-he caught up plan and put it in force
MS plan had IN il lady, of course!
Here ere rules bylaws, and regulations concocted
lis strange he such rules should have adopted:
I'll sail down the river as n man of good name
And find me a Lady of world-renowned fame
He sailed IN a craft quite shackled with sge,
Whose boiler was gone and had lost its good gauge;
Fo-sooth let me say, it drifted along,
While Pike was as merry as a bird in its song!
Pike drifted 10 wharf down at New Orleans.
There TO look Is fool at the city's great scenes
He met with Quaker, who asked him, quite bland !:
I" Ny friend, canst thou tell me from what land
g You comet Art thou in pursuit of riches herein
il so, return TO the city sgainl
For the city is by the bolduess Of thieves
And the haughdest man all the money receives"
Pike, 12addened at this, walked down to the shore,
To lind his boat gone with the waters din-roar
Fo- the fool in his ecstasy had left it united,
And this is the cause of the boats final ride.
He that night cursed and swore and dreamed in his
sleep,
And was worse in his heart than Bopeep for his
sheep;
He dreamed Of fair negro women tramping along
Amid great crowd and amid great throng
Pike trampel it back home, forgetting women and
love,
And vainly he - swore by the messenger doves
His hopes al gone, and so was his boat
So Pike, II his grief, had burden to tote.
Pike died II the age that has passed, passed away
And his tomb tells his life and his age to day:
A verse IS inscribed on his tomb, pure and white,
Giving tribute TO Pike that was done up all right
THE INSCRIPTION.
Here lies in honor to one who has passed away
And went 10 sleep to await time for ''au aye'-
One who died in unsuccessful but heroic art
Died tog eant Of BREATH cf lore and broken heart!
+0'Plke was his real name, but he became fishy,
and concluded he wouldn't be called an Irishman 30
he beheaded his name by cutting off the big COP
AUTHOR.
BENTON, IL ROBERT Il DoTY