The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-14
Valentines That Didn't Come
Some Tell of Peace. Some of Politics.
Some of War and Some of Endeavor.

REGINALD DE KOyEN:
sweet netes. they tell of former peace,
OF all that look d so rapturous then
Now wfehered, iost-Ohi pray thee
cease
1 cannot hear those sounds again.
Moore.
VI. DEPEw:
He is 50 full of pleasing anecdote.
So rich. SO gay, SO poignant is his wit,
Time vanishes before him as he
speaks.
Joanna Baillee
MAJOR MccAW1EY. Z. s.M.c.:
- form more active, light and strong
Ne'er shot the ranks of war along.
The modest yet the manly mien
Might grace the court of maiden
queen.
Scott
SULLIVAN OF MASSACHUSETTS
''ReproachfuI speech from either side,
The want of argument supplied.
They rail- d, rev1I'tl- often ends
The contests of disputing friends
Gays Fables.
DIPLOMATS:
Chauncey The Peach, You're always
in reach,
Yet never get out OF line;
Black had you beaten, OdeiI thought
you eaten
But again your our best Valentine
FROM TIE STATEHOOD BOOMERS:
Oh, give us a State, Mr.. Bcyeridge,
For were worthy as you know,
And mebbe you really could oblige us
With credentials for Bull Andrews
also.
FROM OKLAHOMA RESIDENTS:
Gallinger, GalHnger, so YOU'RE the
real challenger,
Putting US into q thirst.
IT you can keep US from liquor, you'll
have TO be slieker
Than what we can do at our worst,
BoURKE COCHRAN:
Now with fine phrases and foppery
Of tongue,
More graceful action and a smoother
tone,
Will steal on your brib'd heads
YOUNG.
BABCOCk of Wisconsin, chairman of
the House Committee on the District
Of Columbia:
in all thy humors whether grave or
Tf1ou'rt such a touehy, testy. pleasant
Has so much wit and mirth and spleen
about thee
There is no living with thee, nor with
out thee" MARTIAL.
REPRESENTATIVE EscH AND
TOWNSEND:
That thou hast solved a problem older
heads have puzzled Ger in vain-thanks.
and may We dream on.
BAKER OF NEW YORK:
'Tis greatest comfort to reflect,
That doing right Is joy.
The House denies me that respect,
Which cheers the busy boz.
REPRESENTATIVE v E SIAN
WARNER.
May angels guard thee in thy new en-
terprise.
TO REPRESENTATIVE BERTHE
ADAMS:
The aet to build a whipping post
That from thy brain didst slip
UnkEndly critics say was written
Because you have no wife TO whip.
TO REPRESENTATIVE MORRILL,:
The roses are blooming, dear MorreIl,
And spring is winging thither;
Divorces are blooming, dear Morrelf-
Thy bill has vanished whittier
TO REPRESENTATIVE CHAMP
CLARK:
The moon leads forth the starry hosts
of night
And loving morta1s call her mellow
Thy rotund face took up the teach
And now they dub you splendid fell
low
REP r ESE NTATIV CHARLES
HENRY GROSVENOR:
o Delphie one. accept, we pray.
as our Offering this day,
This book of rhymes;
And when prophetic visions fash
Across your mind and you rehash
The future times
Put them in yerSe-to music gay,
More meet the measured forms for
such as they.
TO SPEAKER CANNON:
There was a great fellow from ILL.,,
Whose hair was exceedingly nil.
But the rap Of his gavel
Made Republicans travel
Into line on the old Statehood BILL
TO GAINES OF TENNESSEE:
John Wesley Gaines, John Wesley
Gaines,
Thy swift prehensile brains
Are full Of play
Just as the rains. just as the rains
Fall On the fertile plains
And fade away.
TO REPRESENTATIVE HEPBURN:
L bring to thee a precious gift
IN fact, silver loving cup,
I've placed it on q pedestal
So that you cannot hang it up.
TO SERENo E. PAYNE:
One wonders. o Serene, when das.s of
life are Ger,
And thou & harp art twanging
Across the golden shore.
If any earthly action will give less
cause to mourn
Than thy oftspoken motion
The motion TO adjourn.