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Show i in.. . . m- - - SAM PASCO AND NAPOLEON. Napoleon took Europe ami tossed down toppling top-pling throned, And strewtd Its ghastly hillsides with white nnd bleaching bones: And dandled klnn llko puppotB and'made hl world-uproar. Played his battalions music, passed, and wan heard no more. Sam Pasco took a run-down farm, a rundown run-down farm, alas! When stretched unbroken solltudo b-tweon b-tweon ctu:h spear of Brass, And morta usurped Its hillsides and (laci usurped Its mends, Anil both Its hllM and moadows wero a tragedy of weeds. Sam Posco'fl hard campaigning! Long waged tho stubDorn fray; And Sam grow bowed nnd battered and Sam grow seamed and gray; But thoao bald hills crew green with grass, and appl& blossoms fair Stormed, oa with storms of winter, tho fragrant fra-grant summer air. Napoleon took Europo and played his mighty pamc. And sowed Its fields with corpses and wrapped its towns in flamo. Sam Paco took hia run-down farm and greened its moss-gray soil. And one 8m all plat of this wide earth waj fairer through his toll. Sam Pasco and Napoleon! WIJo are the midnight skies. And in the wlldne of the world men oeem of equal size; And from some star may each look down, each stretch his phantom arm, Napoleon tow'rd Au&terltti, Stun Pasco toward to-ward his farm. Eim Walter Foss, In N. Y. Sun. |