Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth year - Number 56

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1907

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Thanksgiving Ode.

 

    The following lines are gifted pen of Mrs. L. McDonald Berry of this city and were penned for the occasion of Thanksgiving dinner at the Majestic:

 

Thanksgiving

 

"As I'm a humble citizen

In politics unskilled,

I never thought such juicy plums

Should in my lap be spilled.

 

"Yet, we to-day in council meet,

And Turkey we'll divide.

And each shall have a goodly slice,

With Greece, too, on the side.

 

"In China we'll participate,

And Hungary defeat,

And old Oporto we will down,

That mostly can't be beat.

 

"Ask not if the division's just;

The question sorely hurts,

But any one can plainly see

We're getting our deserts.

 

"This cause we have for gratitude;

Tho' humble be our birth,

We thus can meet in peacefulwise

And gobble up the earth.

- L. McD. B.

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