Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-03-23 | Page 4 | After the Matinee

ATER TIlL MATINEE I wish Id been a Christian maid Vlh Iy chin held high And pure yes fixed exactly At right angles with the sky But I fear If ld been Morcia At that meeting In the grove Instead of telling them to stay And be carved up like boy hat Is some form of word for cow I had to make it rhyme somehow I yelled This caucus stands adjourned Skip out to left and right Well holll another meeting Prompt at ten tomorrow night I wish Id been a Christian maid ith wavy flowing hair In graceful robe of white arrayed And so divinely fall That Marcus most SUerbus Would come marching after me In the torchlight procession Glad to lay him doon and dee lis most romantic is i it not Now comes that horrid second thought But beIng chewed by tigers Is not so very funny Id rather go to meeting now And bear my testimony No I wouldnt be a Christian maid For all that Rome could give Id rather go to Sunday school In 99 and live Still I I could be a Christian maid At just this very minute Vith her hypnotizing beauty Marcus S would not 110 in i For Id capture Marcus Hanna And convert him to my views And wed shine In Klplnss latest And be printed In the news And three cheers and a tiger sot to eat me up would he More than the Nile and Niger And all their fish to me And instead of chewed by lions My fifteenth thought confirms Id rather have the letdown Of being chewed hy worms I