New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-22
An ADDRESS TO SERGEANT DUNN.

Up above the world so high,
Prohibition in the sky
Making all beneath 60 dry;
Telling us from day to day
That you will not wet our clay;
Telling which way winds shall blow.
Whether high or whether low;
Whether RAIN or sleet, or snow
Weather or no!
And wonder, Sergeant Dunn,
How you thus can keep the run
OF the weather; come, confess
Do You know, or do you GUEST
Do you read 1t in red Mars
Do you see II In the stars
If you did your points we'd doubt
Stars are very often ont,
Sergeant Dunn,
But know
you it in the Sum-
1t is sol
Ana-Id like to ask you more.
Sergeant Dunn;
But II unduly bore.
Get your gum
Tell Us Of the shining host
Long our flags and poets boast
And sometimes sat on by the Post;
Was be who said the stars fire
At best but a tin-plated liar?
Story and plating, is 1t all too thni
Do We see in them but imported tint
And, further still,
Arc they much. much higher
Since the Mckinley billl
In upper wards-as well to know IL all
What was the price Of votes late In the falli
OF our side issues quite too much I know,
But how did your sidereal issues got
Did star chamber set the party tune,
And have they barrels there above the moonf
The sun upon Its face has many mstes,
And 1t may be that watts there count As votes
Have they that weapon, easier set
And surer than fine meshed net.
That falls down on you swift and straight
As bricl-bats falling from hod
But executes your candidate
With celebrity that's odd
And In a way that rather knocks
Fine lines about the balot-boxl
Howe'er,it be UP in the sun
We're very dry down here, good Dunni
And 6ov'nor Hill within the hour
Has twice remarked to Gov'nor Flswer-
Who winks-
That he thinS
There is quite lapsus between drinks:
That the country's much Ia need Of rain;
That it's hard ON the boys, this whiskey plain:
And he thinks that he must with bogus Groton
Give a few more dams OF Crotop:
Not at ell that dam he'd give
That either you or / might live;
But the contractors getting car1s,
Barrels empty. and jobs they want
And if 10 spoilers belong not the wiTnin's
one might as we'll incriminate Crlmmins.
In view of this very unlocked for dryness,
I'm wondrng, Dunn, if perhaps Your Hghness
Did In the past what is sometimes done
BY other high magnatcs under the sun:
Gave us dividends, water galore,
Ont Of some private, particular store
An increment clearly all unearned,
And then, when the corner was see pingly turned,
And lambs were green, as well as the grass,
Thought dividends now you must plously pass
And wonder too, IL the skies, alack.
Have an atmos pherical sort Of Cammack
Dam,ning tho dews and restraining the rain,
That would make the wilderness blossom again;
Selling the stars most early not his'n
"shorting7 the Gross Of the southern division
short Of all things that rise or have nseni
Rioting even in wreck and disaster,
Praying for drouth to a very dry Master,
And that failure on fa,ufe may follow fasteri
II the pirates flag more freely IL flown,
When that Of the merchantmen halfmast is shown;
IL the stellar Bear Is holder In darings,
When the world revolves sadly on broken Barring:
For with these Big crops IT sticks In mine
That cannbal chief should dine!
- Much too savage?
Then adjourn;
I'm bear,
For a turn
YcTare droutby;
am dry.
! You are Dunn
~ re- JOHN PAUL