Evening star., 1898-09-03
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The BufbuI.

nave peen so busy helping around the
1arm, writes the Bulbul OF PohIck. that
l nave almost entirely given up poetry
writing. OF course. IL you can't sell a farm
the only thing to do is to go ahead trying
to raise things on II. NV feelings have
been very much tore up by the cannon
which loudly doomed and the real estate
which did not. But better times are AZ
hand Us Americans have quit fighting
Spaniards and are getting ready TO have IL
out among ourselves once more In cele-
bration of the era which is just dawning, L
have wrote an ode, entitled,
OH, BEAUTIFUL SNOW-wHITE DOVE
OF PEACE.
Come, flap your wings,
Beautiful snow-white dove
While everybody sings
About joy and brotherly love
And all such things
Though l disapprove of slang. 1 could not
take offense when I heard
You alluded to as indeed "a bird"
Inc dogs OF war gave you a hot chase for
awhile,
But now you can descend from your perch
and coo in your usual style.
Oh, rude, ungentlemanly dogs of war.
cannot see what you were invented for.
Like the czar, think II would be bless.
iiS
If, with great care
You could be taken somewhere
And muzzled. For even when your day is
through,
You are still sticking your nose through
the front gate, looking for mischief to
oo
Let us rejoice while we may. for some time
in the near hereafter,
General Miles and Secretary Alger and
General shafter,
And General Corbih and Colonel Roosevelt
and others whose names will not
thyme,
VIII be in Washington all at the same time
Kind reader, were you ever in an accom-
mediation train
When they backed it up to couple new cars
to it, again and again?
do you remember the way IL bumped
around until things were up-shaken?
Well. kind reader, something uke that will
happen then. if 1 am not greatly mis-
taken.
Only, If affairs are not managed with great
care and precision.
This will turn out to be genuine collision.
1t is only natural to feel that such things
must cease
Before comfortable and proper arrange
ments can be made for the dove of
peace.
Yes. this is the reason why
He is standing around with 4 bad look in
his eye
And his neck feathers rufHIng up like they
never used to,
Till he looks less like a dove Of peace than
a bantam rooster.
1t has been insinuated that he las been
getting careless. too;
That he is beginning to look as IL he had
passed few
Minutes dallyin' with a tar-barrel
The results of which would inevitably show
on his apparel.
And already it has been hinted that IL
would be politeness l
To have some kalsQmtning fiuil on hand 10
help out his whiteness.
But still l cheer up, for my faith is strong,
That those who finally get the worst of it
are those who are in the wrong.
And whatsoever the future may have in
store.
We know We have won glory as fighters.
We couldn't ask for more.
Let us be thankful that the gunners when
they were bid
Landed with more precision than the COM
missaTy department did
we VIII welcome the soldiers, one ana all
Yet one suggestion I fain would make,
though it may seem small
Oh, fellJw countrywomen. I pray you desist,
Before our great heroes have been over
kissed.
You gee how Admiral Dewey seems willing
and anxious to stay
Quietly over in Manila bay.
What is the reason? Think of your own
coQuettish capers.
No man likes to be kissed and then have
II put In the papers.
You should not line up in procession with
ostentation.
Such things should be done with tact and
discrimination.
Let them be kissed the brave by the fair
When duty calls will surely be there.
Bestow salutations SO sweetly sublime,
But don't crowd the hero: there's plenty of
time.
Wonderful KNIVES.