Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-20
BILLS.
A. IL. Kiser.
Oh, the bills,
Censeless billsi

Oh, the bills,
Ceaseless bills!
What world OF happiness their endless
coming kills!
How they keep on multiplying
As the toiler tolls away,
Bravely trying, trying, trying
while his wife Is buying, buying)
10 get even with the world again some
day.
Grocery bills,
Bills for water, bills for plumbing, bills
for coal,
Bills that rend the patient heart and warp
the soul.
Bills for milk
And bills for silk;
Bills for thread
And bills for bread
Doctors bills and dentists bills;
Servants bills and nurses bills
Bills that make the victim wish that he
were dead
And forever free from bills, bills, bills,
bills;
Out OF sight and out of hearing of the ones
who give him chills
With their bills
With the accent on the bills
The discouraging ard everlasting bills,
bills, bills, bills, bills, bills, bills,
The accommodating terrors of the bills!
Here victim Yields the hammer or the saw;
And here one slowly scratches with thu
Signing sadly
As he madly
Tries to think of things that maybe when
in print, will tickle meni
Is 1t fame
They would claim?
Does the porter or the teamster merely
strive to win a name
That will make his children proud of him
some day?
Does the writer or the lawyer
| Or the merchant or the sawyer
Strive away
Just because it's fun to do so, or from force
of habit? Nayl
The bills.
The never ending bills there are to pay
Make the joker think Of funny thinks to
say,
Make the lawyer thunder fierceIy at the bar,
Keep the sallow notorman with the chills
OF death upon him clinging to his car:
| U the bills,
The bills, bills, billsl
From the markets and the mills
| And the mines beneath the hills
| Come the bills,
i Come the soul destroying bills,
| Come the bills for little shirts,
| And for little coats and caps,
Come the bills for swishing skirts
And for feathers and for WRAPS,
| And for squills
And for castor oil and pills!
| All, the bills,
The steady stream Of bills, bills, bills,
bills, bills,
The never-ceasing bother of the bills!
They tell us now there isn't any hole
Full OF tire TO receive the wicked soul;
That there Isn't any Satan down below
Sinful purposes in people here, but oh,
| There are bills
That bring hate and discomfort,
There are bills for food and rent,
And million other things ..
Fen IL little Myrtle sings
If she trils-
Her music teacher brings
In his bills
| Bills for cutting, bills for sewing,
Bills for shrouds and bills for bibs;
Bills for coming, bills for going,
Bills for collins and for cribs
Bills for everything but breathing, always
And for every bill you pay, dozen more
Seem to be where only one appeared be-
fore!
Oh, the bills, bills, bills. bills, bills!
The accommodating terrors Of the billsl
And yet who would ever rise
Here below tho sunny skies,
Who would study to be wise.
Who would ever seek prize;
Who would toll
| In the soil
Or with hammer or with pen,
VIM would ever brave the thrills
That he feels whose fellow men
Give him praise
If the bills
Never came to daunt or daze?
II we never heard of bills. bills, bills, bills,
II bills,
The awful and the everlasting bills?
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