The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-25
BARD OF HAWAII
SINGS ONCE MORE
James Pryor Looney, a. NJ
ph. D., Utters Thanks
giving Ode.

Il Prof. James Pryor Looney, A. NJ, Phi.
ID. sends the Advertiser his Thanks
giving Ode, which, he states, will be
II quite generally used on the islands and
4 on the Mainland next Thursday. Here
are some extracts from this mastery
production:
Nov. 2s, 1889
loft have 1 fancied Spirit Divine
Had poised on it's silver-tipped wing,
And WHISPERED. in seventeen eighty
nine,
In washington's ear with lisping sub
lime,
Let the people givs thanks and singh
Mar. 4, 1897
Next came John Adams with all his
powers,
From Massachusetts, on the bays,
Who stood by his country in darkest
And held up her flag mid leaden
showers,
To appoint her Thanksgiving days.
But in seventeen hundred and ninety
| Washington was called away,
BY the same bright Spirit, all Divine,
| That whispered to him in eighty-nine,
| Let the people give thanks and pray"
July 10, 1872
Behold! the nation is bathed in blood!
| Invaded from ocean and bay;
Chaos settled down on the heart like a
| food.
The president called as loud as he could,
| Let us all live humbly and pray
Dec. "a, 1876
Now the war is over and the nation
| saved,
BY the efforts of Henry Clay:
Where blood once flowed broad streets
are paved,
| Happy voices are heard, proud banners
| are waved,
| At dawn of each Thanksgiving Day.
April IL, 1851
War was declared. between the states
Before the month of May;
Farmers were drilled to soldiers gaits,
Marched to battle to try their fates
| Before Thanksgiving day.
| 1861-1S65-
For four long years the war-cloud
| lowered,
| The Southland hope gave away;
AS deaths keen missiles thickly show
| cred,
And million souls that gulf devoured,
| Most of all forgot to pray.
Sept. 9, 1851
James Garfield joined that host above,
| With Lincoln and with Clay;
With voice as soft as the cooling dove,
In songs that speak of the purest love,
| They keep Thanksgiving Day.
Sept. 20, 1851
See honest Arthur now arise,
| To rule with patriot sway
A nation which, with grateful eyes
| Upraised in homage to the skies,
Observes Thanksgiving Day.
July %, 1856
But bark! a nations tears are shed,
| A chief has passed away;
And kings have joined to weep the dead
Our hearts will not be comforted,
For Grant is dead today!
en-. 10s 1870
Poltroons of all freedom, the agents OF
Spain,
The oppressors of Liberty's Tree.
Have planted torpedoes beneath our
ship Maine,
BY explosion of which our heroes are
slain,
Lest beautiful CUBA be free.
May 1, 1895
Now Commander, George Dewey, with
scowl on his lips,
In his heart feels the terrible pain:
While his enemies Sleep into harbor he
/ slips,
At day-dawn destroys the Spanish war
And avenges our proud ship, the Maine
Aug. IL, 1898
Beautiful Hawaii. "the Isles of the
BEST"
THE land of the rainbow" we say,
| Now comes with good will true freedom
| to test,
And seeks annexation; with zeal and
| with zest
She keeps our Thanksgiving Day.
Sept. 6. a p. NO. 1901
Now anarchy raises her swathed right
hand,
| Like Judas feigned friendship before;
To our chieftain, the purest throughout
out great land,
While hundreds and thousand around
him now stand,
1t deals the two death-wounds it bore!
Sept IA, (2:15 a. mo- 1901
William Mckinley, the noblest, the best!
our Christian President" we say,
is filling his place in the Home of the
Blest;''
with Lincoln and Garfield and all of
the rest,
hes Keeping our Thanksgiving Day!
z. W. O. a. Notes
On Thursday the rooms of the Youns