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Show WALT MASON 1 bTflyL WORSE When I paid up my Income lax, a few brief das ago. some wild atases and alacks I uttered in my w..t i had to pay a frightful sum. a tribute much too at 1 for a time was stricken dumb, and made to stand aghast. I have to earn m scanty rock bv .ong and patient toll, by packing sonnets In a box, and burning midnight oil. And so It Jars mo when I find how great a goat I am; the product of my weary-grind weary-grind must go to Undo Sam. I said, I I'll seek some other lane, somo quiet place abroad where tax collectors do1 not stand an rob man or hLs wad ' I tried I to locate such a shore there s no such I pluco of bliss; In other lands they I tax men more than we are taxed in this A poet on a foreign strand who I earns three bucks a day. would find an officer ai hand to take two bucks away However, great our griefs mav be, howover fierce thc-y seem, they're :oo as bad across tho sea. where eagles do not scream. So let us boar our trifling load and cease to tear our hair, and gambol up and down tho road, our coattalls in the air. (Copyright. 1322. George Matthew Adams.) |