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Madame La Grippe.

These stirring lines, whose opportune- !
mass and sincerity are not likely to be |
lost upon the average ndlvldual whose
n,amory is fraught with vivid recollection !
of a nersonal visitation from the heroine
OF the poem, are from the pen OF MI. |
James r. Randall, and appeared IN
recent issue of the New Orie2ns lines
Democrat.
Where the seas meet the land and the
land quite the seas:
-The universe shakes with terrible sneeze. |
The Gar in his palace. the serf ID bus hut,
Explode all alike when the nostr1 Is shut. |
The saints holy person is no more exempt
Than the sinner whom Satan refuses 10
tempt. ;.
The pest Of the air takes woodworking
trip,
And its Banners are blazoned: Beware |
OF La Grippe!' |
We heard of it first where Peter the Great
Made the marsh OF the NeVa the heart OF
his State. =,
It crumpled the Cossack, and then, in the
morn,
Crossed the Balkan and captured the fair
Golden Horn.
The Sultan dropped down with blgness
of head
That made his whole harem afraid OF the
dead,
For microbic Skobelef rushed with
skip
And held old Byzantium fast in his grip.
From the dome of Sophia to Stephens
tall spire >,
It swept in its furry and coughed In its
ire.
The Kaiser succumbed before set Of sun
And cried: Better far hossuth or the
Hunr'
But tho Hun was himself loaded up with
quinine,
While Bismarck felt humbled at Canossa's
shrine,
For the head Of the naughty takes
cyclonic dip
When it feels the congestion OF Madame
La Grippee'
The Berlin professors went down IN des-
pair
And their scholars tore Greek by the
roots from their hair:
The Titans who humbled the nations are
weak,
While their battle-cry sinks to sad nasa!
squeak.
The Emperor William grows weary OF
beer,
And wiltedly "ambles away on his ear
The White Lady scare, and the pale
Phantom Ship.
Are nothing in horror like Madame La
Grippe!
It tweaked the Republic Of France by
the nose,
And new reign of terror instant
rose.
The dust of Napoleon quivered perhaps
With the cruel, catarrhal, con7ulslVe
collapse.
The Socialist demon declined to conspire,
For his backbone was scared by st An
thony' fire.
The sirens who smile to beguile on the
road
Felt their jewels curse, like the head of
toad,
And the doctor alone, who is sure OF his
tip,
Stood firm in the presence of Madame La
Grippe!
Zigzagging along the Baltic's bleak strand,
It crossed the grim channel to sturdy En-
gland.
The eloquent Gladstone lost power of
speech
And Salisbury took to his bed with a
screech.
The Queen drank hot toddy of fine Irish
make,
And dreamed that Parnell was attending
her wake
With dark, scowling visage and sinister
lip,
Disguised in the raiment of Madame La
Grippe!
Astride of the cable, by British emprise,
It shield to the land OF the free and the
wise.
The Bostonese stomach disdained pork
and beans,
And lived on a diet of antipyrines.
New York heard the figure of Liberty
whoop
Like child in the robust embrace Of the
Group.
Mr. Chauncey Depew wrote funeral verse
While the Negro Problem passed by In
hearse.
The scissors were dropped from coupons
keen clip
As Wall Street went mad in the waltz of
La Grippe
On the wings of blizzsrd, it few to the
West,
With wild and a woolly rheumatic be-
Chicago surrendered at once the Worlds
Fair
And took first prize in the Prince of the
Air.
MIR. ingalls, trumpet made all Kansas
AS Washington answered his cynical
The big bulk Of Barnes was rampant of
might,
But it sunk at the shock of this malefc
sprite.
LdSG anu west, TeSt dAu GdSt, Will
roar and rip.
Crashed the thuDderous football of Mad
anne La Grippe!
You may hear that this imp is myth at
the South,
But this is a pleasant romance of the
mouth.
By the river St. John, at a place they call
Jax.
This writer first felt the prelude OF
attacks.
Very mild was the touch, but as he Jared
forth
A little more near to the stars of the
North,
It kicked and it cuffed and it swirled him
about
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