Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-07-28

- say, said the city editor TO the gush re
porter. edo YOU know anything about musicS'
- Can a duck swim" replied the gush re-
porter
= We'll, them continued the city editor,
you'd better find out the facts and give the
band boys a send off, You sec the musical
man is away on a holiday, and it'll never do to
let the alleged humorist tend to II : he'd be
sure to lug in something about the drums"
Then he charged the gush reporter to be
sure and get all the facts about the trip, and
to write them up in his most ford style. The
result was this
From the sands 81 waikiki to the q waianae
eadeu and ashen and duest gray, all the clouds in
the sky; $500
The only sound one hear Is the iobbng Of the sea
And never an echo iies from the hollow' Of Punchbow
flushed !, the bare Of the band boys, for the baton Of
Berger IS still.
For Melody, luna lag, l,tles,, and Harmony herald
| Is pale
And the mask Of man,line color each band boy on
his cheek
Flicker, and fades and Is all gone out from eounte.
| nance strangely meek.
And where i, the ,mouldering fire that famed when his
ewes were a-dance
band boy, dear Is 1t truth we hcar-hai You sea sick
are in advanced
The city editor said tina, the stuff was nice
and all that, but it wash, explicit enough.
Then he told him to go and ask the fourth
master Of the boat jack il he would kindly beg
the knight in waiting at the ante. chamber, II
he would be pleased 10 accost his loIdshp the
vice. chamberlain, and request him to have
speech with his grace the duke high chamber.
lain, and beseech him TO find favor with his
royal master the king, in order that a waiting
nation might he informed Of his most gracious
majesty was about to depart this kingdom, 10
make glad the great conclave Of knights Tenn
plar in far Frisco,
At least that is what the city editor meant
to convey What he really said, in his blunt,
curt, inclegant way, was this "Will you ever
learn to write plain English Goand see if the
, king and Daegctt are going, too"
So the gush fcpor,er went and this is what
he found out
o Rex, Rex Rex
IL You ves, veN, veX,
The hearts OF your people sore;
Because we know,
II ever you go,
We never may see you more
Suppose a whale
Should FLIP hts tail
FL High out Of the pea green sea-
And frghten YOU so
I'll You must go below,
| How very sad il would be
II And, in all serious earnestness, we cry,
To thee, o King Of this Hawaii mel
= We pray thee stay at home and take
, closer glance a, all thy peoples needs.
The powshate rusts in many faow field
/ Thy largess might full iructiiy, Il thou
1iadst wiser counsel of thy chosen chiefs.
There is no good thou mightst not do, # thou
n Put by the tempting bride Of selfish ease
And dared to live for all the peoples good.
i What is the pomp OF majesty, to this
10 sit enhroned, high in the nations heart;
To ride knight Grant Of the nations rights;
To stand the tribune Of the peoples wrongs;
To sit in judgment their diff rencesl
$ Not vulgar pomp, but pride most honorable
, May yet be thine, II thou wilt dare and dare,
And always dare to live forgetting self,
In thought Of all the good is thine to do,
Teach US, Q King orgiying, TO forge,
The wrong, in par our own whereby thy choice
n Made rcnegades thy trusted counsellors.
u Teach us, o King
And this in compliment to the American
II Minister Resident; ,r-
o Ron did you say
That you going away,
Going away to have time in California;
You NIL our hearts with woe,
~. III