AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL!

How dear to me are home and wife,

The dear old Tree I used to Love,

The Pear it shed on starting life

And God's Outdoors so bright above!

For Virtue gets a high reward,

Noble is all good Scenery,

So I will root for Virtue hard,

For God, for Nature, and for Me!

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Don Marquis

(Who, it appears, refers to departments which he and certain of his friends run in New York papers. He swings a theoretical barrel of hootch above his head, and chants:)