Show NI 31 0 3 ft B LET HIM LIVE M a 0 ga ta ft ni the following sinking striking verses were penned by an 1131 pa unknown author who for some reason chooses to con ea P ceal his or her identity inasmuch as the manuscript fra M was first found in a christmas packet sent to a lan 0 caster ohio soldier being one of a number r prepared na M by girls of that place it is generally supposed that a ft the lines were composed by some gifted girl whose 9 y home is somewhere in the buckeye state all attempts sa to identify the author have thus far failed because tal of the strange manner in which the verses found pub a li cation they desen e as well as for their own antrin ta sic literary merit the unusual comment and f favorable avo rable al criticism they have received in the east the lines sa f follow ollow ft w As long as flowers their perfume give n a A so long id let the kaiser live i live and live for a million years with nothing to drink but belgian tears nl with nothing to quench his awful thirst ea but the sal salted ted brine of a scotchmans curse a I 1 would let him live on a dinner each day ser served ed from silver on a silver tray I 1 lea served with things both dainty and sweet served with everything but things to eat pa 4 m and id make him a bed of silken sheen raa n with costly linens to lie between i lel I 1 N with covers of down and fillets of lace 0 and downy pillows piled in place n pa yet when nhen this comfort he would yield it should stink with rot of the battlefield and blood and bones and brains of men i pa r should cover him smother him and then pa his pillows should cling with the we rotten clay M clay from the grave of a soldier boy afta ati and while gods stars their vigils keep M and while the waves the white sands sweep ft he should never never never sleep and through all the days through all the years ica m there should be an anthem in his ears ringing and singing and never done pa from the edge of light to the set of sun pa pa moaning and moaning mo ming and moaning wild ft A ravaged french girls bastard child As lonely a castle as ever could be pa then id show him a ship from over th the e sea taa M As fine a ship as ever could be ba n laden with water and cold and sweet 1 laden with everything good to eat afta n yet scarce does phe she touch the silvered sands pa yz scarce may he reach his eager hands pa tra than a hot and a hellish molten shell fea M should change his heaven heave ii into hell y aba tz and though hed watch on the wave swept shore na M our lusitania would NN rise no morel more I 1 afta jg 31 iz in no mans land where the irish fell fells id start the kaiser a private hell 1 id jab ab him stab him give him gas in every wound id pour ground glass fea id d march him out where NN here the brave boys died out past the lads they crucified pa N in the fearful fe adful gloom of his living tomb nl there is one thing id do before I 1 was through pa id make him sing in a stirring manner a the in wonderful ond erful words of the star spangled banner PU pa M im 94 ft ft M IQ ft i |