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UYEN NHI


LATTER
– DAY WARNINGS
 
When legis lators keep the law,
When banks dispense with lolts
and locks,
When berries, whortle – rasp –
and straw, -
Grow bigger down wards through
the box, -
When he that seeleth house or
land
Show leak in roof or flaw in
right, -
When haberdashers choose the
stand
Whose window hath the broadest
light, -
When preachers tell as all they
think,
And party leaders all they mean, -
When what we pay for, that we
drink
From real grape and coffee –
bean, -
When the lawyers take what they
would give,
And actors give what they would
take, -
When city fathers eat to live,
Save they fast for conscience
sake, -
. . . When publishers no loger
sheal,
And pay for what they stole
before, -
. . . But when yousee that
blessed day,
Then order yourascension robe !
                                   Oliver Wendell Holmes