Show u uI I A AM I THE TH XE I was as born in the silent forests far from the ports OItS of men I have watched the Redman hunt his game by day and great animals fight to death by by the auroras aurora's palo glare The woodsman's axe an ICY stream a merciless shrieking ot of wheels and terrific heat ane anc sure pre and I am a great white rIb rIb- bOll boim spun into a roll only to be drawn out again through 1 the battel batter batter- ling thunderIng j jaws Vs of a printing press But ut in the hands hands' of oC all men I am now an inspiration a clairvoyant a historian My Iy sides are covered with magic symbols of a gigantic SIgnificance I am m the tho voice of the n nation the light of the world When I go forth I I hear ear the decrees decreeS of the greatest brains brains- and ancl threats threats of the strongest I mob idol forces of my time I tell my story a king topples from his arms throne and millions of soldiers sol sol- tHere diers march gallantly to an unknown I sing their requiem and itIs it d death nth I I Is known no in the farthermost corners I of the tame earth and ancl in its deepest seas I II dreamers dreamer's thoughts I I spans of steel over O great greit tor torrents and build spiros of stone stono to shelter I mens men's gods goels I and continents I are served and worlds are arc cement cement- led ed I I tell my tales of the prince and time th pauper My anthems are of the free flee and the brave and I chant the song of the wage slave ill in dusty noon or 01 I brIng comfort to eyes ees and jaded minds by feverish midnight I am feared by all men yet wooed and courted like a fickle muse Where men have gathered together together to- to gether I am And until the last lastman lastman man has gone home to the Great Beyond De- De yond I shall be I am the papyrus ot of time I |