Show I I C In Bohemia Bohemia r By John Boyle 0 OReilly e I Id I'd 1 rather rathel live in Bohemia than in ill any other oilier lan laud f Tor VOl only there are t the e values true And Aud the laurels gathered red in all mens men's view vien The prizes of traffic and state slate are arc won wun By shrewdness or force forc or by hy deeds ee s undone un one Taut Bui flume fame is tweeter sweeter without the feud fend And the wise of or Bohemia arc never ne shrewd shrewd- sh ew tier lIer pilo pilgrims rims Tims stream with a gait sublime From every class and climate and time Aspiring Aspirin only to he be enrolled With ith the tho names that arc are writ in tl the I c hook houk o gold of f g bold And each one bears in his pus mind or ur hand handA L A palm of or the dear Bohemia lan land The ho scholar first with a n hook book book-a a youth A Aflame flame with ith the glory of or harvested truth i 1 1 A girl rl with a picture a n. man with a 1 play lay Y A bo boy with Hh a wolf he ho has modeled in iii clay A smith with ith a marvelous hilt and sword A player ph a king a 8 ploughman a n lord lord lord- f And the player is king when the door is past I The plou ploughman hman is crown crowned ell and the lord is last Id I'd rather live in Bohemia than thai in any other oilier land laud There are no titles inherited there No hoard or hope for the tho brainless heir No gilded dullard native born To stare at his fellow with leaden scorn Bohemia hay hns none but adopted sons sons' j Its limits where fancy's bright stream runs Its honors not garnered g for thrift or 01 trade But Taut for beauty and truth men souls have m. m made To fo the empty heart in a n. jeweled breast There is value alu maybe in a purchased crest crest But the thirst thirsty of soul soon learn to know The froth of the Social oc al show w j The Tile vulgar sham of the pompous pompons feast Where the heaviest Purro is is the hi highest g t priest Where the organized charity scrimped and ice iced d I In the name namo of a cautious statistical Christ The smile restrained the respectable cant When hen a friend fI in need i is a friend in want Where the tho only aim nim is to k keep cp afloat AntI And a brother may nay drown with a n cry in his hi throat oaf Oh 1 I long g for the glow of a kindly l heart and anti th the a grip rin of or a friendly hand hands Ian And Id I'd rather live in ill Bohemia thai tha in n any other land I In In Brunos Bruno's It Bohemia 1 |