The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-04

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The one that tshanks to mel his grandsirs GOT
Emperor OF Germany served his fathers turn:
Twill not serve his Well, we'll, we live and
!. in my age. have learned one certain thing:
Who makes king shall perish BY kiag.
What else should come Of making kings, The
best
10 but policy in purple dress
Matched this policy within my brain;
But shall 1t hatch policy again?
made an emperor; made his heir, and ho
Has made an emperor to make mock OF me.
Is this the way God laughs at men to spoil
Their work and bring to nothingness their toll?
10 give the seed. the wit to make IL grow.
Patience TO nurse thi. tree till blossoms blow,
To lend the fatness Of the iahored land,
And turn the fruit 70 dust within the handf
1t Soils ways shalt not be understood
Let me laugh, too Surely the Jest 10 good,
have time for laughing now. In days gone b.
We had no laughing times. my kings and 1:
Nor did dream such gratitude was theirs
To ssSe my latter years from s;atecrafts cares.
And let me sit In calm retirement down
10 watch youthful EN- pcros play the clown!
Right well you play it, William mine-how well,
Ii takes a critic old as TO tell
No madden jest merry mind could plan
Than kings coqnettiug with the iabosing man.
gay eoneeit. Indeed. it .eems TO me,
That congress-. summoned by your high decree
To view the woes Of man, and find cure
For you To guarantees a. swit' and sure.
" hen Ven dispatched your mother into France.
d coarse. to give the Joke its subtle sting,
grandmother would be the proper thing.
stlis, twas anus ne--eud Instructive, since
II SHOWS just what can make n Frcnchm man
vince.
Make hlx lip culver and his thin check t,aach-
4 conqnerat's widow with an olive branch
Oh, hai she gone-the jest - carry through
10 see II sparks sIiil fingered at II. Ciouds
Play yaug game out. boy; will lock and laugh
Ihtesh over tnc poor wheat I thre.hcd 10 chaa
81 a Har less "a, ..r ~ hny
IAat s.e~i's The on y metal FOR a throne.
lou aFe--your guns. and nothing else on earth,
Except The brutal accident al birth.
1 auA you the golden years Will come again
When the poor gsea>ants. deeing gfom the plain
H.adiei beneath the castle waits, strs,ehe i
hands
To pgay the war lord 10 pro,ec. thcir land.
Against tie alien piunder... Kissed the sod,
AuI Thought han reger. Of Almighty tod
way. eaiii, that dogma OF your heaven sen:
riEht
IL. in ;ais day, mere excuse polite
for owning cannon. and the more you own
re isore divine your right Is 10 tire throne
TAl8A you i9csc people " hose Intelligence
h Is you win proud pagernal eonsi .sncs
Have learatd-yoa let them .eaga-so write and
read.
To fad oas ways of lettering their breed
he. hold themselves s;lll made tor You 10
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And doc. ,he spider educate the AZ.
reaching him By this te.iy Suow ,hasl
tau csa'sa yea. 'a.s nay sl3tiersng web, in set
To bod Foaf feet FAST ig stir.y Ies
- nos walk ia, pray, Dyiass;r.ght
tia. sIvea rae = pretty sgyetitel'
Mailman saa tAbe--yom send yos;r fy 70 sehon,
Aud iasa expect your 1F to &c your TOOL
Pisy an. play on KEEP, yosr right, alive:
! made a rsc. lesss dogma Inrlye
sfa eafrea nac-ieru safl, b.4s say war lord
Ia one hand bore tbs ship. in one r.ro,t
liz Risht ruen he.t 'i!slae: hi. ;i.!e clear
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