St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-16
quently %paraphrased and often without
any loss to the truth they convey:

There's many a slip
TWixt the cable aud grip.
While the gas holds ont to burn
The meter will the dollars earn.
You may smash. you may shatter the case
But the scent of the Limburger clings where
it used to.
Two voices are there; one is of the sea; -
One of the mountains; each a mighty
voice
Both offe r summer board v~ociferouslee,
And both are bad, and you may take your
choice. INC
parOdied as often as there are words IN
the verses. The following is clever: ~
Gin a body meet a body '"'
Lookin after rye: s.a-
Gin a body treat a body
Need a body cry? cir
Gin a body has a quarter, t~a
Be it you or [,
Do or dom you think he oughter
Put it into rye? o
Mnhlenberg'S beautiful lines have
been improved upon thus:
would not live Away,
| ask not to stay, A
But still / am not ready ~
To go right away. O.
The originals of the following will be
readily suggested:
No one has such an ugly face
But what some one will in it trace
A charm, and make it known
And WOO il for his own.
You must wake and call me early, call me
early, mother. dear,
For II you don't the chance are L won't get
up this year:
Be sure and keep ON calling me, say fifty
times or more,
And when 1 wake I'll growl because I wasn't
J called before.
never had an early flame
To whom | did attention pay,
But what another fellow came
And coolly stole my girl away.
Vhe breaking waves dashed high.
Dashed high with a right good Will;
But with all their dash they were not 80 high
AS the seaside hotel bill.
Little drops of Bourbon,
Captured by a wink,
Make the soda water
Easier to drink.
While many persons are SO delicate in
thought and expression as to make any
kind of parody seem like a dissertation,
there are other types that they cannot
harm. in fact, the satirical parodists
have it in their power to render unpOp-
uiul tbdt NlllCu liiCJ CuOOOC " AOihOl
SO. While they may have done some
wrong, they may be credited with hav-
ing brought about reforms in poetry
for which the public feels grateful.
Here is a sample of the ''passion poetry"
that at one time threatened to sweep
the land:
She touches my cheek and I CULVER
L tremble with exquisite pains;
She sighs-like an oyercharged river
My blood rushes on through my veins.
She smiles, and in mad tiger-fashion,
AS a she tiger fondles her own
| clasped her with ferceness and passion,
And kissed her with shudder and groan.
1t was the pen of the parodist that
came to the publIe'S rescue and arrested
the c0nflagration before it has COM
pletely consumed the normal literary
taste of the times. The happy result
was achieved by adding to verses like
the foregoing lines like the following:
She smiled then | mentioned the oysters,
Aud grinned at the sight of a stew,
Very much as a frolicsome boy stirs
When he dons his first jacket of blue.
| gazed with e-nchantment and wonder
On her beautiful Omaha hair,
And squandered my money like thunder
On this wild, witching maiden SO fair.
But when she was filed to repletion, isa
With steWS and hot coffee and pies,
And the supper had reached a completion
In front of her Ben Butler eyes,
Behold, she arose from the table.
And accepted the arm Of another,
And ere to pursue / was able, 1s
She had gone with her strapping big brother.