Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-05-03
[For tho Courier.
Crowned Childhood BGdes Calamity.



UNTO THEE, Q! LAND KING Is cnLp"-rcol 1916
Thoro is to land when king is a child
BY tho arts of decevors to OWL boguilod
And there's to land with reign done good
When it runs its slow lcngth down to second childhood
For the of base, sons of Belief accused
Can deceive second childhood as wol first
And entail,on reign, in its vanishing years,
Dire disaster and crime, and hearbrcaking and
Politics is gamo tho unscrupulous play,
In empire, well as home ehore, today,
And experts in the gamo often win sea,
With card up thcr sleeves, like tho hoathon Chnoe.
With Gladstone about to direct tho old quoon
Arrant tories persuade lcr to think bright sheen,
From tho trappngs of troopers will light pago
That records tho great deeds of tho Victorian ago.
But the light the may go out in eclipse
And tho light of a roalm with it's land ships
May subsido into darkness like Egypts of DID,
And its record may read like tale that is told.
wicked bear rulo oppressed people still mourn
Often wishing, like Job, that they'd been born,
While the cnds that havo crushed them brought
Occupy their high places and feel not their
There shouting till shoutors grew hoarso
At brave Cronjo's surrender to ten times his force
And the queen from her carriage graciolsy bowed
Oil her friends should have kept hcr away
There call for mourning II Britain that day
Than rejoicing in such wild truculent way,
For her by tho thousand lay dead some field,
Or were capvcs, wrhing, from wounds still
And homo groups and sons now beroavetl
Wore tho omblems of woe, and dcsparingly gricvcd;
But all these were forgot and tho crowd wont Wild
And the queen, looking pleased, approvingly smiled!
Isaol's victory day into mourning ulod
For tho king lost whose death he ycarnod
And the that fall, although king,
Are as dear to their parents as Davds to him.
hcatlon named pyrrhus IL great victory won
Then exclaimed cone such and Pm wholly undonc'
Such thought, truly wsc and so timely expressed,
Should control the emotions of each manly breast
The hilarious Brtors on that gala day,
Must have thought tho next bo Pretoria;
just surrendered to Roberts, Kruger and Steyn,
On their way to Helena with Cronjc to pine!
AS a king OF old a thousand of men,
Made march up hill and a again.
So Lord Roberts of late with his army and train,
Marched out twenty miles and then marched again!
he declared that tho middle of May
Would behold his great army in Pretoria,
Where alas, .hc fleet Butler had boastcd before,
That he'd cat Christmas dinner to hunger 10 more
A poor horse a mill, movement will show
But he makes no Advancement though much on the go
For it's hill so steep that each stop track
Makes slide that returns him tho back.
They biclcring now, andc contcndng that blame
Heavy rests some heads for disasters that came,
And Lord Roberts bamcs Butler and Butler let's drop
His disgust at the wa, Warren left Spion kop
c skctladdlcd there O Il double quick
Just because the }ocr bullets flying thick;
And if he should be asked s why he 20 fled,
He would blame the Beers for their death dealing
III i'll becomes Butler poor Warren to blame
For he well himself and his running his fame,
And if both should quit to contend in the race,
Laurel wrcathcs pofuSOn their temples would grace.
Tho disputes of commanders esprit dc Corps"
And has wrought dire disaster in many
This ;a;"a effect will Boorc cause,
And help Kruger, like Samson, o lionja Jaws
1t is madness men, all astray from the right
To be nagging each other for failure in fight,
For their fight is all wrong, a disgrace to tho time,
Which to lose is a shame, and to own is crime.
Their brave foes religious, united to boot,
And they their camps and still pray they shoot
AS did Cromwcls toundhcats in the First
Whose gay troopers slan just like victims accursc.
The Phistincs strong with their armies spread wide
We're unequal to David with God on his side,
And the British with forces FIJI tcn'to Beers one
Must 'rcrc before Kruger and still be outdonn.
Foolish aak hired l'alaom
But each time his heart poor tongue would rebel
And it spoke but to bless tho good people Of cod
Who so late in bonds under pharaoh's 's,od.
Now the l}alals of Britain have Balaams far,
a good people to curse with barlarouS
On the hills, in the vacs they have BEST,
But in spite of their cursng the Beers blest.
And the blessing vouclSafc, will upon thcma abide
with such hosts Of the good and the IoY their side
And if Britain from disasters II
Shc must stop her mad fight no more.