And now bestriding the Isthmus beneath the Stars and Stripes, with my right foot at Colon and left foot at Panama, I watch the digging of the interocean canal, with the High Priest Roosevelt joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in eternal wedlock, where the commerce of the globe shall float equal and free forever!
Congregated at the World's Fair at St. Louis, the grandest exposition of the globe, I see passing in review the men and women of all nations, where art, science, letters, manufacture, commerce and government power reveal the wonders of man's handiwork.
And now, navigating the circumambient air in an electric ship, I'll sail away to the "Island of Immortality," and dream a season from my multifarious labors.
I'll go swinging round the circle
Through six hundred future years,
With the roses and the myrtle
Growing in celestial spheres;
And sweet Freedom, heaven slated
Round my footsteps, night and day,
When I am incarnated—
Shall still hold its deathless sway!
And great Shakspere then shall meet me
To renew our former youth,
And exclaim with honest fervor—
"Jack, you always told the truth!"
THE END.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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The original varied spelling has been retained.
Fixed issues
- p. [xvi]—typo fixed, changed "Blackfraiars" into "Blackfriars"
- p. [062]—inserted missing closing quote after "Henry the Fourth"
- p. [067]—typo fixed, changed "Southhampton" to "Southampton"
- p. [077]—typo fixed, changed period after Ovid into comma
- p. [078]—removed extra comma after "action, shall"
- p. [082]—typo fixed, changed "O'Neill" to "O'Neil"
- p. [099]—typo fixed, changed "fued" into "feud"
- p. [114]—typo fixed, changed "Arnum" to "Arnim"
- p. [122]—inserted missing closing quote after "the dogs of war"
- p. [150]—typo fixed, changed "exurberant" to "exuberant"
- p. [160]—typo fixed, changed "hatheth" to "hateth"
- p. [163]—inserted missing closing quote after "the sea maid's music?"
- p. [190]—typo fixed, changed "pick" into "prick"
- p. [196]—typo fixed, removed an extra word "PAGE"
- p. [203]—inserted a missing period after "the Prince of Denmark"
- p. [209]—typo fixed, changed "my" into "by"
- p. [216]—typo fixed, changed "beauty" into "honesty"
- p. [218]—typo fixed, changed "Dump" into "Dumb"
- p. [224]—typo fixed, changed "Margaret" into "Gertrude"
- p. [232]—typo fixed, changed "deeds" to "weeds"
- p. [237]—typo fixed, changed "Armyn" to "Armin"
- p. [252]—typo fixed, changed "speech" to "peace"
- p. [253]—typo fixed, changed a closing single qoute to a double quote
- p. [254]—typo fixed, changed "parent's yes" to "parents' eyes"
- p. [254]—inserted a missing comma after "and trades"
- p. [256]—inserted a missing period after "quoth I"
- p. [297]—typo fixed, changed "mutally" into "mutually"