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Show "I AHl THE IIIIIM-PROVEDiLGHWAY" IIIIIM-PROVEDiLGHWAY" ("By H. G. Andrews.) I am the unimproved highway. ',. My name is Mud! S- The foot that pattered in primeval Jf jpime gave me birth. Unchanged while the ages parsed. I have endured. Time has but served to Increase my infinite variety. Karth-born, Karth-born, and without a soul, yet have I lived. . From the beginning have 1 been man's enemy; A dust-colored python am I, stretching stretch-ing my length across the hills, waiting my time to crush endeavor. I have snared caravans' that left bleaching bones 1n lands now dettert. Empires have fallen because of me. I have turned victories into routs; I 1 Viave trapped mighty leaders and have Crushed armies. 1 am without faith; and those who trust rae I deceive. Today I am fair to look upon; tomorrow to-morrow a steaming bog. 1 add Difficulty to Distance. ' With Isolation I conspire to unjoint the endeavors of man. I tug at the wheels of the grain cart, that bread may be dt-ar. I hamper those who would feed the race, I am an enemy of church and 1 school. I mire the Ik'hUt on his S rounds find dluy the coining that lit-8 lit-8 tl ones may ilia. - I am a disrupter of Home. I speed -'the firt liorn to the cities when I am fair to s't; find when he would return ! I fa"i him with my forbidding depths. I I mini"'r to Bitterness; and lay a tax on ull the worht There is none who1 4 live who does not pay me tribute. When men plowd with a crooked stick 1 w'ei there. When the ancients covered T:' with stones I , slipped away to other lands. 1 am the oldest J.te that, lives today. Wen count tue cheap. I know the price they pay who count me so. I fA am the unimproved highway. I My 'prime is Mud! (Copyrighted by Win. Peim Highway. I Association.) ! |
