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Happy Days By: John Cecil Clay (1875-1930) |
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To Stern Critics Here's to stern Critics!
May they some day learn
The forward lookout's
Better than the stern!
[Illustration] Here's to her shadow!
May it mark the hours
Upon the sundial of her life in flowers!
HAPPY DAYS BY
OLIVER HERFORD
AND
JOHN CECIL CLAY
NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS
NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A
CONTENTS PAGE
TO STERN CRITICS 3
TO HER SHADOW 4
TO FASHION 9
TO THE TYPEWRITER 11
THE FLOOR 12
TO MUSIC 15
TO THE PUBLISHER 17
HERE'S LOOKING 19
THE DOVE OF PEACE 21
TO THE CLOCK 23
TO HOPE 25
TO LIBERTY 27
STAIRS: A TOAST 29
TO LADY NICOTINE 31
OH, EDITOR, EDITOR! 33
TO THE CREDITOR 35
TO NEPTUNE 37
TO THE WAITER 39
TO TEMPTATION 41
TO THE MAID WITH FANCY FREE 43
TO OUR SWEETHEARTS 45
TO OUR READERS 46
[Illustration:]
Fashion! Lovely Dame!
Pledge in sparkling wine!
Let us add her name
To the Muses' nine! Though the lovely Nin
All should pass away
Why should Woman pine,
If but Fashion stay? Tho' the Muses' lore
Molder on the shelf,
Still may She adore
In Fashion's glass Herself.
[Illustration:]
To The Typewriter Here's to the Typewriter!
Health to her type!
Whether blond or brunette
Or budding or ripe.
If she be the right type
Be she buxom or slight,
When she doesn't type wrong
She is sure to typewrite.
[Illustration] THE FLOOR Here's to the floor,
Our best friend of all,
Who sticks to us close
In the time of our fall.
When benches are fickle
And tables betray
And rugs are revolving,
He meets us half way.
Our stay and support,
When we can't stand alone,
With the floor for a backer,
We'll never be thrown.
Here's to our friend,
In life's every stage!
Dry nurse of infancy,
Wet nurse of age!
A health to our floor!
Supporter and stay;
Though he often be full,
May he never give way! [Illustration]
[Illustration:]
To Music Here's to Music,
Joy of joys!
One man's music's
Another man's noise. [Illustration:]
[Illustration:]
To The Publisher! Drink!
Let his virtue be shown
In the Good Works of others
If not in his own. TO THE PUBLISHER
[Illustration:]
Here's looking
at you, dear!
though I should pour
A sea of wine,
my eyes would
thirst for more.
[Illustration:]
Here's to the Dove of Peace!
May she find a mate some day,
And may her tribe increase
As fast as she can lay! With cooing doves galore
Then may the sky be dark
Until the Dogs of War
Can't see each other bark!
[Illustration:]
Here's to the Clock!
Whose hands, we pray heaven,
When we come home at three,
Have stopped at eleven! TO THE CLOCK
[Illustration]
Here's to Hope,
the child of Care,
And pretty sister
of Despair!
Here's hoping that
Hope's children shan't
Take after their Grandma
or Aunt!
[Illustration]
TO LIBERTY Here's to our Goddess, Liberty,
Idol of bronze and stone!
May she awake to life some day
And let her charms be known.
[Illustration]
STAIRS
A TOAST Here's to the man who invented stairs
And taught our feet to soar!
He was the first who ever burst
Into a second floor. The world would be downstairs to day
Had he not found the key;
So let his name go down to fame,
Whatever it may be.
[Illustration]
TO OUR LADY NICOTINE Here's to Lady Nicotine!
Saint and Sorceress and Queen!
Saint, whose purple halo rings
Lift our eyes from earthly things;
Witch, whose wand of scented briar
Transmutes dead weeds to fragrant fire;
Queen, whose rod her slaves adore!
What can freedom offer more?
[Illustration]
OH, EDITOR, EDITOR,
Awful and grand,
Who holdest our fate
In the palm of thy hand,
Dost ever reflect
How one day thy ghost
To an Editor awf'ler
And grander will post?
Before him a great
Golden scroll is spread wide,
And a bottomless waste basket
Yawns at his side... Continue reading book >>
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