UNCLE SAM’S SOLILOQUY.
WE’RE a very simple nation And not burdened overmuch With the bump of veneration For dead deities and such. Yes, we’re simple, but assuming We can read our title clear, As the children of Jehovah, To this western hemisphere, Then I say, without presuming To be caustic or severe, That in spite of every blooming Transatlantic buccaneer. Who, with avarice consuming, Hopes or helps to engineer Any scheme in—well, no matter. Talk is cheap and time is long, Words are but the parrot’s chatter, Acts alone may right a wrong. What’s the use in bootless kicking ? Heaven, perchance, has willed it so. England’s doomed to get a licking Every hundred years or so. Oh, ‘ busy bee,’ exalted so, We’d work like, you, we vow, If we could loaf six months or so As you are loafing now.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XII, 21 March 1896, Page 336
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140UNCLE SAM’S SOLILOQUY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XII, 21 March 1896, Page 336
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