The Irish standard., 1908-12-05
Wexford.
Grandest Of Byzantine Hymns.

Grandest Of Byzantine Hymns.
We love to find Poetry kneeling with
all her legs and feet before TIN on.I
Truth. Therefore have we collected
diligently all odes paeans, dithyrambs.
epics. songs and sonn.us, ASSORTED
hymns and chants in celebration of
Mr. Roosevelt. ironically says the New
York Sun. Many hands bring many
laurels, but the greeaest and freshest
are fetched from Sullivan county in
this State. Sullivan rich in game, also
hunter Of rhyme. it seems. The ode.
TO President Theodore Roosevelt"
printed by the Sullivan County Rapub-
aican, is sound and kind, with an
aff1atus like a sirocco. From the be-
ginning it never fouls and never
fiinches:
ages will sing thy praises,
oh, mighty Presiden. Of The United
States"
All ages. from the mighty Presidents
own immortal infancy up to the ten
der juvenility of the Tennis Cabinet.
The age most apt to howl from this
choir. however. should be Of the new
recruits in families obetlient to the
Rooseveltian multiplication maxl,,.
Were 1t not to scratch the perfect
chrysolite We might suggcs, this vari-
ant:
Man more than deifled.
Strong swatter Of race suicide.
Babies shall sing thy praises,
Oh, mighty raiser Of sheol and
blazes."
But back to the vocal woods of SUI
Ivan county:
Every man within the REALM
Every man expect the Ananias Club,
the criminal rich. fool sons Of million
aires, meticulous Judges and q few
million others:
"Sees In thee radiant greatness,
LIKE u SClntlllALlNK SIaS
Illumine wisdom for future minds!
Thou art thy country's armament,
and the worlds.
Thy peoples thoughts, the stars
Which shine through thee"
Certainly the radiant .,ne has made
business see stars. Thy country's fir-
mament and the worlds: a gracious
allusion to the old bra:ea armament.
Thy peoples thoughts, the stars which
shine through thee: could there lie q
courtlier or more poetisal way of say
ing that the great illulninato- is not
too proud to convey and publish as
his own thoughts, language, letters,
anything to stuff q club or message
with? On with softly cadenccd feet:
Like a great warrior Of ancient
times
Whose deeds till now recorded arc
In books historic!
So. shall thy great pen Of peace
OuU We all bloody deeds
That once swayed nightly"
Hail, Caesar! But what library can
hold his commentaries? No doubt his
pen of peace. that is, wc infer, his COM
ing African zoology and his writings
in his Outherod-such we understand
is to be the name Of the now excellent
periodical which is to be swallowed
up in him-will outlive such bloody
deeds as t:at slain SpaniarG. Once
more into the stream Of song:
Thou are one Of two great person.
alities.
But greater thou!"
Which is q little tough on William Of
Germany or William If Nebraska,
whichever replica is meant. Now, sol.
emn and canorous a., Beverage. the
stream pumps up to the precipice and
leaps gloriously over the same:
Friend Of Nations.
Man of men,
Foe to falsehood!
Thou art the incarnation Of truth
immaculate
And infallible in honor"
Members and waiting list of the
Ananias Club please copy.
The mn appended to this majestic
work Of The Imagination is "Gustave
Eliot Spiltoir." From irternat evil
dence we should have thought It the
joint production Of two famous Byzan-
tine poets. the Hon. Alher: shaw emf
the Hon, Jake Riis. @.,