KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY,

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 190, 16 August 1859, Page 2

KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY,

It is not that a small bird sines With'aught of warning voice, " .' ~ And bids distrust Anointed kings, .- * - '■■'. ; ' , Or chiefs, tlie People's Choice. -' ' We trust them all with all our"soul', "-" - *', Wo know'their honor's high: ' ■ -■ ' But still we think,* upon the whole, . . We'll keep our pow,der dry. • No Monarch ever broke his word, ■Fiir less the oaths he swore,. ,- . 1 Or if such things have e'er occurred 'Twas in bad days of yore. A 1 Kings ai*c riow so good and,true, — What,.doubt 'a Sovereign', fie! But still, John Bull, 'twixt me and you,We'll keep our powder dry. • No notion lashed by dastard greed, Or priest, or ancient spite, ■ Will clamour to its chief's to lead" " ■ Its armies to the fight. ■ '■ We're all a band of brothers, John,. All linked by friendship's tie ;. , But thi's ono whim we'll act upon, • - We'll keep our powder dry. No statesman now is led astray • - By love'of pUea or fame, . To'nrge his wavering prince to play At war's infernal name. They're all so cosmopolitan, For justice each would die; And yet its just as well, old man, We'll keep our powder dry. No chance lest hot sea captains clush" On far Atlantic waves, And raise' a quarrel o'er such trash. As buccaneers,-or slaves. No distant parties burn to thrust Lean fingers in the pie; , . But though we're all belief arid trust, ' We'll keep our powder dry. i No armed three-dockers-crowd a dock, -. ' No soldiers iimss and drill; No rjy.il hands, on ride's lock, Test how tho gun will kill. • ' No cannon stores with str_uige increase • Pacific'pledge belie: *, • But though the world's so lapped in peace, . We'll keep our powder dry. — Punch.