Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-02-20
THE PRIMERS INSTITUTE.

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Kelly before the West
Side Farmers Club
Jan. Is, zoos.
My harp from rust and dust IL bring
And time and tune each vagrant string,
Those painting chords too recrcant seem
. 10 rouse them to my minstrel theme.
q harp, does times relentless grasp
Round thee too her iron fingers clasp.
Mas, though, twas man and only
That withcrcpl as the ages ran.
Nh! then my belief from earlier youth
y mockerv secms-devoid OF truth
MI things then on earth and sky
But run their race, repine and die
Harp, thine aid crave to lead the way
And Farmers Institute the lay,
) SO now respond to this rough hand
Well Sing of those who till the land
Elder Crabb, with somber robes and
!, whitened HAIR
Led the assembled multitude inprayer
a Fathers blessing, called he down
I On all the homes both farm and town.
For those who furnished forth the
I programs theme
A special blessing fruitful seemed
Next came the Rabbi with Jewish
! lore and Jewish law,
He came not from Isreal but from
Omaha.
His scattered tribes no more from
lsrcal hail,
.. But like the flushed covct OF mountain
When put to flight through wind and
! sle scattered in al directions cvely-
4 whc,r.
Nor worc lie on his lace ll.at crooked
i rose
Which IN ancient times Tor sculptor
I used TO pose.
1t seems the bunion which now adorns
! the toes,
In former times adorned the human
Evolution, Evolution, thy work sore.
ly rue,
: There was more room upon the nose
4 than in a leather shoe.
Z Away, away, thou heart OF lead
That put the ounion on the floor to
: tread
Forty centuries were given birth
Z Since Abraham enjoyed the earth.
lie the founder of tine Jewish name,
y The father OF the creed they claim.
In all these wears. in all this time,
y Their creed the same one God sublime
! When the Savior came to band,
|. The Jew still held to this command,
Thou shalt not have strange gods lie
= fore me"
!, Refuse to believed or bow or bend IT,,
u Ard since that time, two Thousand
9 The Jew maintained through grief am,
tears,
Yes, through Prosecutions wilecs
That his and his alone the creed tia
!, saves
! The modern aye With erec,ls resonn,
That multiply by leap and bound
In thousands now their names appea
With hundreds added every wear.
So swiftly rush these crccels for fame
We scarcely know the latest Shame
: As round religion shrine they roll
! In search oil some dcgcneratc's soul
Then rot mine, The wish one laura
= claim
Il from .lewesh Creed or Jewish fame,
n creed that's rum since time began
Is worthy praise from mortal man.
One historic belief for ages sung
Y He shattered with his silvery tongue.
l. Queen isabelle in search oi worlds
q Pawned not her Jewels or her pearls
!, She pawncd alas, O yes, lis true
y She pawncd the property oil the Jew.
:, BY Spanish law or ro. al mandate,
II He was given but eighteen days /,
: leave the state.
The chattclS which he could not brin,
Became the property of the King
Iwss these she pawncd. O, roy;l
S Spain,
d To finance that voyage ore the main,
Il In search of worlds beyond the sea
: And she found, o, yes, this land of lib
p crty.
l. The sun that round the world j,
l. splendor rolls,
r. Shines on about ten million lewis
souls.
Half these exist where Russia's curse,
banner flies.
Or The other half in every land beneat
10 the skies.
W Frank Rainier with sheepish lore.
S. Next in turn filled up the floor.
10 He talked Of sheep and lainbsa and ewes
v OF mutton chops and steaks and stews
"a The discourse seemed to flag the while
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