Wit and Humor of America, The Vol 08

<h2><SPAN name="THE_KAISERS_FAREWELL_TO_PRINCE_HENRY" id="THE_KAISERS_FAREWELL_TO_PRINCE_HENRY"></SPAN>THE KAISER'S FAREWELL TO PRINCE HENRY</h2> <h3>BY BERT LESTON TAYLOR</h3> <p><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Auf wiedersehen, brother mine!</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Farewells will soon be kissed;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And, ere you leave to breast the brine,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Give me once more your fist;</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That mailed fist, clenched high in air</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">On many a foreign shore,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Enforcing coaling stations where</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">No stations were before;</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That fist, which weaker nations view</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">As if 'twere Michael's own.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And which appals the heathen who</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Bow down to wood and stone.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">But this trip no brass knuckles. Glove</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">That heavy mailed hand;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your mission now is one of Love</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And Peace&mdash;you understand.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">All that's American you'll praise;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The Yank can do no wrong.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To use his own expressive phrase,</span><br/> <span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_1569" id="Page_1569"></SPAN></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Just "jolly him along."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Express surprise to find, the more</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of Roosevelt you see,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">How much I am like Theodore,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And Theodore like me.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">I am, in fact, (this might not be</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A bad thing to suggest,)</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Theodore of the East, and he</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The William of the West.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And, should you get a chance, find out&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">If anybody knows&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Exactly what it's all about,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">That Doctrine of Monroe's.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That's <i>entre nous</i>. My present plan</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">You know as well as I;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Be just as Yankee as you can;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">If needs be, eat some pie.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Cut out the kraut, cut out Rhine wine,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Cut out the Sch&uuml;tzenfest,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The S&auml;ngerbund, the Turnverein,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The Kommers, and the rest.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And if some fool society</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Die Wacht am Rhein" should sing,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">You sing "My Country 'tis of Thee"&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The tune's "God Save the King."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To our own kindred in that land</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">There's not much you need tell.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Just tell them that you saw me, and</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">That I was looking well.</span><br/> <span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_1570" id="Page_1570"></SPAN></span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />