St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-17
NEW POEM BY FULLER.

The New York Sun gives Chief JUS
tice Fuller and Hon. John F. Meagher,
of Mankato, quiet rub in the follow
ing: Hon. John F. Meagher, of. Man
kato, the Minneapolis Tribune, and all
who ale with us for the recovery and
preservation of the chief Justices poet
ic writings. will be delighted to learn
that The Sun has recently found spir-
tied bacchanalian, the existence of
which had not been suspected. We
hasten to lay this new Fuller poem be-
fore the country, with the assurance
that we have irrefutable evidence of its
authenticity, and that it is here correct
ly transcribed:
l.
''Oh bright is the CLEAN of the silv'ry stream,
As il leaps from its native mountain;
And sweet to the taste. in the desert waste,
Is the draught from the pure, cool foun-
tain;
But sweeter than this, with its transient bliss,
To me. in the desert roaming,
And brighter still. than the sparkling rill,
Is the wine in our goblets foaming.
'CHoRUs.-Tnen fill each glass as the mo-
ments pass,
Let the red wine mantle high
As pledge we here, TO mem'r y dear,
The pleasant years gone by.
IL
''Oh, hard is the strife of the battle of life,
To the soldier youth cOntending!
Full soon may fail cen the plated mail,
He fdncied himself defending,
Yet we'll on 10 tire fight with hearts SO light,
At the stirring trumpets tone,
And never will yield the battlefield
Till victory is our own.
"CHoRUs-Then drink tonight, with hearts
SO light.
To the untried world before US,
And gayly laugh, as the wine we
And Join in the merrs chorus
AS no person with an ear for music
need be informed. this bacchanalian by
the chief justice is intended to be sung
to the weIl-known air of "Sparkling and
Bright" Indeed, it almost sings itself.
Here Hon. John f. Meagher, of Man.
kato, and the other promoters of the
Fuller boom have exactly what was
wanting. a song melodiously available
fCz campaign purposes, and at the same
time a declaration of the candidates
personal opinions on the liquor question.
1t will be remembered that the bac-
chanalian by the chief justice, which
has been previously published i'll these
columns, is married by most unfOrt-
innate blemiSh. While very beautiful
in other respects, that song contains one
line grossly offensive to good taste. The
chief justice urges his companions in
revelry to ito raise the hosanna to ivy
crowned Bacchus, our jolly-Souled
king''-a sentiment not only Impolitic,
as introducing monarchical notions in a
free republic, but outraging the sense
of propriety by the use of word re-
stricted to sacred themes. The circum-
stance that the chief justice needed
hosanna to rhy me with banner is nc
valid excuse.
This last bacchanalian, however, Is
free from such objections; and it con-
tains the interesting announcement that
the chief justice, personally, when
roaming in the desert, prefers a red
wine charged with carbonic acid gas to
the purest and coolest samples OF
Adams ale. OF course, this sentiment
will have to be modified for campaign
circulation in Maine, Kansas and a few
| other benighted localities. Elsewhere
it will go down.
Before Hon. John F. Meagher, Of
Mankato, has procured the nomination
of our anacreontic chief justice for
president of the United States, we hope
to have gathered the material for the
"Complete Fuller Songster" that viii
sing him into the White house, if any
thing can.