The record-union., 1897-08-02
A Yankee Loose at the Jubilee.

| III z. Johnson pays respects TO her ma
Jesty. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and Empress of India)
1t was in the decade of the thirties.
| Days when l was but a mere boy.
l heard tell that merry Old England,
was aglOW in eXhuberant Joy
| Because to her throne had ascended
| Victoria, youthful Queen,
| And the world would have peace and con-
Such as never before had been seen.
didn't know much about England,
And still less about queen or throne;
| But later somewhat of meaning
| Upon the great topic there shone
| When read about Georges and Marys,
| OF the Kings and the Queens of the past,
| On until God gave us Victoria
| And twas prayed, May she long be the
last
How we'll that prayer has been answered
| Her maJesty's reign now reveals,
And its three score years completed
| For a grand recognition appeals
Not alone her kin it eclipses,
But the longest of earth it exceeds,
Not alone in years, as theyr counted,
! But, also, in blessings and deeds.
It has sown the seeds of friendship,
! And has strengthened the bonds of love:
Also emphasized the doctrine
That we claim descends from above;
For men have become less savage
More inclined to the paths of peace;
Seem anxious to hasten the moment
| When wars among nations shall cease.
Most marvellous, too, other changes
That have marked the years of her reign,
Not only among her subjects,
But as seen in the world amain:
Far abroad have missions extended
The church her bulwarkS upreared:
And the spreading of useful knowledge
Most graciously has appeared.
Ne longer rule knights in armor,
But those clad in garbs of peace:
rights
Are everywhere seen to increase;
Dame Nature has yielded her secrets
To supply every want of man,
And the elements serve as heralds
Where erst the courier ran.
The winds no longer uncertain blow.
But reveal the coming storm,
And treasures the earth is yielding up
Have become most multiform:
The sail has yielded it's right to steam
The coach to the iron steed.
And the telegraph and telephone
Do the flight of time out-speed.
But, grandest of all, has been the growth
OF young Brother Jonathan
Whom the world adOreS as 'fJTncIe Sam"
The very kindest sort of a man,
| VINO, It's known. in all that count for
viii forever heartily pull
| With his neishbor, ever most esteemed,
The right worthy Mr.. John Bull
To the Queen have come, as to US all,
The ever sad hours of grief;
The loss of him whom the world well
knows
She has ever esteemed her chief;
! There have also come the unceasing joys
That around our children cling,
ana hers to her mother heart have been
AS the overnight flowers Of spring.
While our songs of Jubilee we sing
To Victoria, Britain's queen,
And of India the Empress, too,
We will interlude between
May the sixty years of SOW reignty
nj Tn. nv 111l nyfp
Aye, earths millions earnestly will pray
That cen then it may not end.
Full we recognize the nonors thine
In this fairest Western Land
Where every man is a ruler born
And takes a sovereign hand
But unlike his cousins, fails to see
The claimed right, divine, of kings
And deprecates the struggles fierce
Which that ancient doctrine brings
But to thee our regards, the highest
In friendship unfeigned, we extend;
And in every American BOSOM too
Thou may'St count an unbiased friend;
And when thou reSignest the scepter
May thine be a far higher state.
/ Is the fervent prayer of our people
Thine, a true Yankee Laureate
III. u. JOHNSON.
Orwell, Ohio, U. S. A, June q, 1891.