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Show OUR CASTLES IN SPAIN. Dreamer Drops Into Poetry In Expretv Ing His Longings. "Young man, build cnstlcs l:i Spain!" Joseph Cannon. 1'tl llko to bp liosi ot tlin In ml of tlio Joss, Tlic chopsttckn, p.icodnn ami rlco; With niy cjebrowa itslnnt, a bcartl rnthcr . scant, Anil a cue thnt would go n round tnlcol Twoulil iilcnno mc, I own, to sit on n tlirono In nn Ivory pnlnce nml ec A lot of ruvnnia In myaterloua pants Oct busy kowlouliiK to me. I'd llko to bo chilli or iimharnjah, The Sultan of Sulu or (itinm. Or hold down the Job of thnt linught; nabob. Ilia JobloLs, tho King of Slam. In tho tropical zono I would fnln hrtvo my throne, , Cnrcsieil by Ita lnugunroua brenth, To nit there In etitto with my black-anil-tan mntc Would tickle mc nlmost to death. I nlxo would llko to London to hike, Ah king of the tight little Isle, And aco Now York Clt throw n ilouble-ileckeil ilouble-ileckeil tit 12v'ry tlmo thnt I toxscd It n smile. All these. It la plain, aro but castles In Spain: Tin plensnnt to build them but yet, I wish IM tho cheek to nsk twenty u wcok Instead of the twelve thnt I getl !'. L. Itose, Jn Chicago llecord-llcrnld. |