Show t t tt r i. i Let Hind Him Live Livett tt 4 t The following striking versus were penned by an unknown author who for sonic some reason chooses to conceal his or her Identity Inasmuch as 88 t the manuscript was waa first found In a Christmas packet sent to a LanChester Lan Ian Chester cheater Ohio soldier being ono one of a number prepared b by girls of that place It ills Is generally supposed that the lie lines were composed by some gifted girl whose whoso home homo Is s somewhere In the Buckeye state stale All It attempts to Identify identity the author have thus thua far tar failed tailed Because of the tho strange manner manlier In which the verses found publication they deserve as ns well welt an RI for their own Intrinsic literary merit the unusual comment and favorable criticism they have received In the east The lines follow As long as flowers their perfume give So long Id I'd let the kaiser kalBer live live live- Live and live for a million years With nothing to drink but Be Belgian glan tears With Willi nothing to quench his life awful thirst J I But the salted brine of a Scotchmans Scotchman's curse s 1 I 1 would let him live on a dinner each day Served from silver on a II silver tray tray tray- Served with things both dainty and sweet sweet sweet- Served with everything but things to eat And Id I'd make him a bed of silken sheen With costly linens to lie between bet With covers of down and fillets of ot lace And downy pillows s piled plied In place Yet when this comfort he would yield It should sUnk stink with the rot of the battlefield I And blood and bones and brains of men Should cover him smother him hIm and and then Ills His pillows sh should uld cling with the rotten clay 4 Clay from the grave prave of a soldier boy And while Gods God's stars their vigils keep keell u And while the waves the white sands Bands sweep lI e tIe io should never never never sleep f. f And through all 1111 the days through all the le years ears There should be un an n anthem In his ears r Hinging and singing and never done the edge of or light to the set of sun e Moaning and moaning and moaning wild wildA wild wild- A ravaged French rench girls girl's bastard child As lonely a castle as ever er could be Then Id I'd show him a ship from over the sea As fine tine a ship as ever could be Laden with water and cold and sweet Laden with ev everything good to eat Yet scarce does she touch the silvered slivered san sands I s. s Scarce may he lie reach his eager hands Than Thun a hot and a It hellish molten shell Should change his heaven Into hell And though hed he'd watch on the ave gave swept shore Our Lusitania would rise no more morel In No Mans Man's Land where the Irish fell Id I'd start the the kaiser a private hell ti Id I'd jab lab him stab him give him gas In every wound Id I'd pour ground glass Id I'd march him hint out where the brave boys died died died- Out past the lads they crucified In the fearful gloom of his living tomb There is one thing Id I'd do before I was through Id I'd make I him film m sing In a II stirring manner The wonderful words of The Star Spangled Banner |