Show I WHEN THIS OLD HAT WAS NEW I For The Herald I When this old hat was new boys Ere war notes stirred the land The hum of trade and Industry Was heard on every hand Our pountry and our countrys needs Resounded over all While grovelIng alms and savage deeds Were crowded to the wall In youth as age the patriots fire Burned with an ardor true ro own the earth none had desire When this old hat was new II Can this be true Was not some price Paid to the fiends and fates To be hurled down from paradise Unto the infernal gates In our short generation Nay There must have been some wrons Some greed and avarice that day And all the years along For such a devils crop as this Howeer concealed from view Some germs of trusts and robberies AVhen this old hat was new III When this old hat was > ncwl bo sHow s-How soon you knew a friend With honest tongue straightforward gaze And ready hand to lend l No corporation sought to steal Your hardearned scanty wane Nor plutocrat caused you to feel A silent rvowerless rage And oh the lassies shining pearls Vere alwars nitre and true Dame Nature formed her loveliest girls When this old hat was new IV Vain claim Pretence with age grown sere And selfish Interest range False lights that like truths glow appear ap-pear Their habits never change And tyranny and greed and lust Dark forces have allied Tn prln m1nklnl Into the dust For realms and ages wide If from the annals of past life A tithe be reckoned true Fase vows and Jezebels were rife Ere this old hat were new V When this old hat was new boys Go to enthusiast Youths boundless wealth of roseate hope A nimbus oer the past Has flung enhalolng sin and crime Oppression selfishness With Its own goldentinted prime Though charming we confess Are song and sentiment that melt The heart it Is not true In no mlllenlum we dwelt When this old hat was new N ALBERT SHERMAN Salt Lake City February iSIS |