Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-08-24 | Page 26 | Battle of Blenheim

TLE I-TLE OF It I was a 0 summer evening evening- e Old Kaspar's Kaspars Kaspars Kaspar's work was done And A ho no before his cottage door Was ras sitting in the sun sun- And nd ty by him sP sported rt d on sun the gr green en His little grandchild She saw paw faw her brother Peterkin w Roll Rol ns large l and round Which ho beside the rivulet In playing there had found He Ho came to ask what ho he had found That was Wa so 80 largo large and smooth an and round Old Kaspar Kaspar took it I from the boy Who Vho stood expectant by And then the tue old man shook his hiS head And with wih a natural sigh sigh sigh- some soma poor tel fellows fellow's ow's skull said he ha i Who fell tel in that great victory Ictor I find them in the tho grden garden For theres there's man many hereabout And often oren when I go to plow The plowshare turns thorn thom out For man many thousand men said ho he Were Yere slain in the great victory Now tell tel us what all al about Young he cries And lUlo looks up With waiting wonder wonder eyes eyes eyes- Now ow tell tel us all al about the war var And what they fought each other for It I was the tho English Kaspar cried Who put tho the French to rout But what they fought each other for tor I II I could not well oel make out But everybody said ho he That a famous victory M My father lived at Blenheim then Yon little stream hard by They burnt t bu-t his dwelling to the ground And ho he was forced arced to fly fy So with wih his wife and child he fled Nor had ho he where here to rest his head hoad With Wih tire fire re and sword tho the country round Wag wasted far tar Wa and wide And Ad many a chiding mother there And Ad new-born new baby died But things like that you ou know must mUt be bo At every evory famous victory They la say sa It I was a shocking sight After ocr tho the field was won won won- For many thousand bodies boie here Lay rotting in the tho sun But things beAfter beAfter be bo like that you know must After a famous vIctor victory Great Grent praise tho the Duke of ot Marlborough won Ay A won y 4 v. v Why hy a vcr very ory wicked thing Said little Nay na nay my little girl I he It I Ivas was vas a. a a famous victory And nd everybody praised the duke Who this great eat fight did win But what good came of ot it I at l last st P Peterkin Why rh that I I I can not toll tot said he But a n famous victory Robert Southey