SELECTED POETRY.
A NEW READING FROM “ HIAWATHA.” Should you ask us why this dunning, Why these sad complaints and murmurs, Murmurs loud about delinquents Who have read this paper weekly, Read what they decline to pay foi*, -Read with pleasure and/rath profit, \| . Read of church affairs and prospects, Read of news both home and foreign, Read the essays and the poems, Full of wisdom and instruction ; Should you ask us why this dunning, ■ We should answer, we should tell you j From the printer, from the mailer, From the kind old paper-maker, From' the landlord, from the currier, : From the man who taxes letters 1 ‘ 1 With a stamp from Uncle Samuel— Uncle Sam the rowdies call him ; From them all there comes a message, Message kind but firmly spoken, “ Please to pay us what you owe us/’ Would you lift a burden from us ? Would you drive a spectre from us ? Would you taste a pleasant slumber ? Would you have a quiet conscience ? Would you read a paper paid fpr ? ■*< Send us money—send us money, Send us money—send us money ; 6'e/ul the mone;/ that you owe us. —Syracuse ( N.Y.) Typo. . , -
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 206, 21 October 1873, Page 7
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191SELECTED POETRY. Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 206, 21 October 1873, Page 7
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