Ventures Into Verse / Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial

by H. L. Mencken

Can spare a minute now an' then

To take a peep at you an' me.

The Gawd of Ol' Man Adam

An' Father Abraham,

Of Joshua an' Isaiah,

Of lion an' of lamb,

Of kings, an' queens, an' potentates,

An' chaps of pedigree,

Wont put a bar acrost the Gate

When Gabr'el toots fer you an' me.