Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-31
The Windmill
no camlom cAagnapUY.

TO cRmIon cAasDaDNN.
You eyes are blue. ~ summss sly.
That clear desp blue Of early June
When life In neod runs swiftly By
And chants the old. old magic tune.
When Phoebus from his throne ON
high
His cup OF golden wine 10 spiIiing-
Your eyes are blue ~ sumDAs siH
But far less thrilling.
You voice n like the singing brocl.
That chants it, lyric 70 the meadow;
That laughs DER shoal and psbblsA
neck
And shouts Its message thru tHs
shadow;
The god that made you. Chios. took
Its sound to match your lovslinesA
Your voice IL like the singing brook
But says much less.
Like marble 10 your forehead whitA
BY some old sculptor finely fashioned
Who thought Of you both day and
night
And carved from stone his dream
impassioned;
How sure and sharp his ehissi's
fighti
How clear and true his artists ssnssi
Like marble is your forehead whitA
And quite A. dense
Oh lady. II you're moved 70 ask
Why who strive to speak the truth,
Still In your presence love to baSk
AS was wont to in my youth;
II now you take your bard to task
Demanding If he's still you thrall,
Oh lady. If you're moved to ask,
He's not at all
Never you mind how I am asoinG
to vote this year." says Uncle
Abimelech Bosardus. Of Prsaknsss.
n. j.. hut right in the face Of all the
crises that folks tell US confront the
world. I'm going to bet on the can.
didate that stands for repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment and the IN
come tax"
From what we hear Of conditions
in Berlin we fail to SEQ why Holland
feels she has to watch so carefully
to keep the kaiser from going back
From coast to coast city admins
trations are announcing bitter war
on rent profiteers. in which the vio-
tories of the aforementioned ad-
ministrations will doubtless resemble
those OF the late lamented Admiral
kolchak.
Europe Is getting ready for the In
fiux Of American tourists. and It
won't be long before the devastated
villages OF France will be swimming
In formerly American-owned wealth.
Probably within q year or 30 some
disgruntled peasant whose own town
escaped the imprint Of the Hun viii
be complaining:
Pretty soft for those folks In the
next village! Look at the swell
ruins the Germans left for thsmI"
Germany's revolution inspires the
thought Of how pleasant 4 thing II
would have been II they'd decided to
kill each other five year. before they
actually did.
Now II only tho bolshsviki and the
Germans would start . war OF
mutual extinction, how blatantly
neutral We could be!
We're importing cheeses from Dem
mark. That darned immigration law
never did work right.
The other day Chicago lady
wrote gentleman a beautiful death
pome" ana then shot him fun Of
large. open holes. Probably one OF
those "endearing elegancies Of female
friendship" Doctor johnson used to
talk about. But ut that, we hope II
isn't going to start any open season
for leap year valentines.
Imagine a ray Lothario opening
his morning billet doux upon q
tribute like this.
Tho rose is red;
Cold steel Is blue.
You're going to die
At half past two"
And yet We don't know. When you
stop to think OF It there's q certain
fascination about the idea, too. We
can't see why II should be especially
confined to the ladies, either.
F'rinstance--to the landlord:
"Yeu raised my rent.