Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-03-01
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Roberts Now and Britain's Outlook


'And he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But Britain does not trust him murh
Sends Roberts down to fight the Dutch,
And fondly hopes, with purpose stout,
That HE will early wear them out.
| Experience proves there's oft Il slip
Between the goblet and the lip,
And he who lifts to sip once more
May let it fall to splash the floor.
We learn from Bard Of Scotlan,"S pen.
"Ihc best laid schemes Of mice and men,
! That look so safe and strong throughout
! OFT end in unexpected rout.
or late SAINT, Roberts by name,
! Hy Mormon votes to Congress came;
/ But he was bounced and forced to tramp
! Because he had three wivcS-ihc scamp :,
y gibbet, fifty cubits high,
/ Proud llaman built for Mor,lccai,
But MoldrCai arose in state,
NNlc llaman 5 rope sealed lIaman'S fate
Ambitious pride, in great or small,
Il" ruin tends, and has it's fall.
And it is shown by ages past
That what blasts men will Empires blast
Chadca'S pride, great Babylon,
or ancient powers the greatest sun,
Like Iucifcr, from heaven fell,
Her site waste where reptiles dwell.
Old Egypt, once so proud and strong,
Still famed in story and in song,
Now, through her length, shows scarce Il
trace,
OF her ambitious primal race.
Her pyramids and ruins great,
But magnify her dreadful fate,
And strangers now make their abode,
Where Joseph once with Pharaoh rode.
Famed Mcdo-lcrsia, Greece and Komc,
In turn, to power and Empire come,
On weaker States, great armies hurled.
with aim to conquer all the world.
But each, in turn, as Empire spread.
Pursued the path to Empires dead,
And their vast ruins left behind,
Are beacon lights to warn mankind.
Poor Spain. Four hundred years ago,
The widest Empire earth could show,
Has lost her prestige, power and fame
We pity when we speak her name.
Just two and twenty years ago,
Strong Russia fought weak Turkey low
And would have slain the monster foul,
But for the British lions Hrowl
She told her gunncrs battle SCARED,
tonStantnoplc to lombard,
When Britoh's ilcov with shot and shrls
Steamed up the angry Dardancllcs,
And siGnallcd Russia, Sc ease the strifc,"
TO Turkey, 'rakc new lease of life"
Six years ago Armcnia's blood
Was shed by Turks, abhorrcd of God,
And Britain saw the grcwsomc sight,
But did not ntcrposc her might,
Or lift voice, or feeble hand,
TO save the ancient Christian land.
For savage ticnds, unfit to live,
Her sympathy she's prompt to give;
For humble saints she's NO regard,
But gives them up to fire and sword.
Such conduct in Il ruling power
Must hasten fast her coming hour,
When she must sink to lower plain,
And take her place along with Spain.
Great Britain's power may SO decay,
And lose, by greed, her world wide sway,
That where now sits her Parliament,
The Arab yet may pitch his tent!
a nations sins are punished here,
Than this no truth shines out more clear,
And when her judgment day is come,
There's naught that can avert her doom.
We wish her well in all that's right,
And when for truth she makes her fight,
with peaceful weapons named 10y Paul,
She II have esteem and praise from all.
But when she's cruel, like the Turk,
And pushes on her bloody work.
To crush the free, and rob and spoil,
y frccman'S blood is made To- boil
We love the BritISh to our mind
Ihcy We done the most to bless mankind.
IhcIr government must bear the blame
OF all that brings the blush of shame.