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6 THE STJNDA1 OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1900. 7- ex X Editor Oregonlan, who got a 60-horse sense, racing runabout -" braia what can go at very speed rate, but must slow up some - times when Ladies & Childrens wish take pleasure-drive and see scenery, jlon. !Mr. TTOMOBILES is like babies. When you got one In the 5 house it are hard to talk about something else. Naybors might drop around for slight conversations about Tariff 6 other scandals; but you merely set around with absent-mind txpression awaiting for chanst to mention something. Of finally Jion. Naybor find he must be polite or go, so ne ask to know, "How are Dearie behaving itself today?" Immediate brite ex pression for your face. "Thank you, Dearie are quite well," you blow out, "with excepting of slight knocking in engine & bursted cjlander which will soon get fixed and it can still pass every person on the road, but can't do today because of 4 punctuated tires " And if Hon. Naybor are a true friend he win observe that you are beginning to enjoy his visit. I got a very motoring mind today because I just rode in one. You are requested to imagine my surprise. " This A. M. while standing by curb with toothpick, American custom, suddenly Hon. Death riding on wheels and decorated with red paint come booflng round corner snoring loud wads of smoke and low! I was collided from behind by a blow which caused my footprints to seek such altitudes that I arrived down on my brain. It you was ever overtook by a Ottomobile you will understand them simptoms I mention. Silence followed for me & cease-to-think. Soonly I arrive sensible again; but I did not durst ope my eyes because I might be dead & regret it. "Do you enjoy great injury?" require a Voice at my ear in Japanese. "Where am I located?" are first question for me, Decause it are correct to say that when coming to. "You are safe In my ottomobile," say same Voice in calmly . manner. "Are anybody safe in a ottomobile?" are next question I take. Blushing silence from that Hon. Voice. I peek slightly through my eyes, & beholt! I are In front seat of a huj red tour car of angry appearance, & next by ma set G. Washida Nishi, Japanese coachman for ottomobiles. I am very much pride to be there. I forget my wounds for enjoyment. There I were looking quite natural & setting in chumbly companionship with a actual Chaffer to include gogged spectacles and a beast-skin overcoat of enormous plumage! This must be too much pride for poor Japanese Schoolboy. . Thus are hummbel persons, oft by axldent, tossed In company of richness & high quality. ' With fierce expressions of General Prince Oyama this Hon. Nlshl clasp pilot-wheel with elbow, press clicker with thumb & kick 3 golden handles with foot. Rores from Hon. Machinery. Deep breathing by Hon. Ottomobile, and of suddenly we are wending away! ! SY wr$HtNUA T00C ( WALLACE IRWirtf) COASTING BY GAS POWER -co "Hon. Mr. Sir, where are we Intending to go?" I qulzz with sorted emotions. ' "Chaffers is not required to answer fooly questions unless they feel so," are snib from Hon. KIshI while ottomobile make carelus curve around corner. By this time we are 2 miles away & I do not care. Thick dust-winds. Hon. Nishi keep firm eye forward & chew gum with goggles. We are now in rural suburbs. I can tell this by green streaks which go booling past. Occasionally we break through villages. I suspect they are there by American curses from indis tinct inhabitants. "Have we arrived to Chicago yet?" I ask for nervus teeth. "I should like to know when we do, because I got a cousin there in the tobacco business." Harsh smiles from Nishi. . - "We are still approximately in San Francisco," he spark up. "At such slow rate we are going we should never reach nowhere." "Are we not progressing some?" I ask with clutches to seat. "Merely 40 miles per hourly," he absorb. "Should we meet a straightway stretch of road we might be able to singe-up to Blight speed." (I make a Shinto prayer for continuation of wiggly roads.) Pretty soonly Hon. Nishi show signs of kindness. "So-ha!" he say, "Straight befront of us are 1-mile stretched with straight speedway. Now we shall get some joy from this motoring!" Pushes by gasolene Whoof!! already my derby hat & spec tacles is blown out. With one hand I clutch-on to my hair, so that this also will not depart by wind. With other hand I -make crab pinch to seat & permit my Intellect to vanish. Cannon-ball feel ings of entire digestion. I close my eyes because I can see better that way. In 40-second by clock-time that mile of smooth-way road have been entirely removed, and I was glad to see It gone. The Car are then gradually appeased by Nishi who command it to stop near road-side saloon. "We was going to some extent," he announce for information. "I suspected maybe-so It was," are deep sob from me. "Let us enter this saloon for slight whisky-ceremony," say Nlshl. I do so, thank you, because my soul require some medicine to smooth it down. I set to table by Hon. Nishi & whisky-drunk are obtained from waiter. I admire to see this great Gas Driver throw 25c care lusly away for this refreshments & 5c extra for Hon. Waiter to tip himself with. Formerly I have admired Hon. Napoleon, but I have no room to do so now, thank you, because Hon. Nishi are so much grander. "Exalted Mr. Sir," I blow out when Hon. Whisky have ceased hurting my voice, "please to tell me 25 or 30 historickal facts about yourself." "Five years ago from date," commence Nishi with stiff-brow air of a hero, "I was a poor Japanese Schoolboy like you are now" "I am discouraged already," I reverse. "What you did to give you such sudden riz to be famous?" "I firstly work in livery stable of Baron Motomatsu, samurai & sugar merchant. Here I begin life by being poor & lazy. By ernest effort in this direction I gain contdence of my employer & was promoted up from time to time until, of finally, I get com plete control of hla tour-car and have been there every since, loved & respected by all who know me." "There are a great moral lesson to be cleaned up from this," I motter. Patient expression from G. W. Nlshl. "Lesson are: Begin life by being poor & lazy and you will have great distance to rize up," I say for wise remark. "High jobB of great success Is nice, but they is oftenly squashed down by considerable responsibility," gear-up G. W. for crumpled forehead. "What must persons learn-do to make a complete Chaffer?" are queery .1 ask-it. "A complete Chaffer must know slightly something about the inside stummick of a ottomobile so be can talk the language. When broke-down occur Hon. Boss require, 'What are cause-it?' ' Hon. Chaffer must open cover-lid of enginery & coyly peek inside. 'Oil-cups Is dripping Into feed-box new ones would cost $16," he might say, or something else inteligent. When Hon. Car travel with morbid noise like a bagpipe, then Hon. Boss might require, 'What makes the machinery lament so?' So Hon. Chaffer must again got out & look worried into interior digestion of Hon. Car. Of finally he must say with voice, 'Speed-gears has all come loose & got bound around inner tubes. This will cost $40 for a new on').' Pretty soonly Hon. Boss will cease enquiring questions, because It always cost him some more money." "All animals comes In different breeds," I negotiate to Hon. Nlshl. "This are especially true of dogs. Do ottomobiles also come in sorted kinds?" "Something slightly," kindly explan this noted man. "Otto mobiles arrives In elaborate varieties and very wise persons can tell them apart by looking at them." I stand gast with otter beswitchment at such wlsedom. "Tell me ear-marks of a few brands," I pleed. So Nishi give me following statestick about 6 brands of ottomobiles. 1 The Mercy D. are a German-speaking motor of kind disposi tion. It look very expensive when in motion & filled with Vanderbullts. 2 The White Steamboat are a American-raised car with a large bird-cage in front. 3 The Hard-Pan are a French speaking car with a sloping roof on the tront porch. 4 The Reno are likewise French, but It got a kind face like a porpoise with brass teeth. 5 The Locomubble go very fast when pursued & ar a tine tree- climber. 6 The Placard have a stealthy disposition and yellow legs. Hon. Nishi would gladly told me more about the habits & home-life of ottomobiles; but I were nervus to go away because Hon. Waiter kept cluttering around with expression of wishful hope that I would buy something. So soonly we was off In roadway again pushing away miles in confusion of dust & honks. "When we approach to Market Street, Hon. Nishi persuade the Otto to go more gingerish. "Are it true you are completely void of any variety of fear?" I ask-it with what breath I can use up. "Completely so," he relapse with modesty. "To be a Chaffer a person must be accustomed to look death in the teeth; so what could he tear from mere human mans?" I were admiring this fearless super-Gentleman who was not scart of nothing when of suddenly! , by street-corner one Hon. Police make hop-out with bounds. "Stop-It your Car!" he dtb. (Obedient stops by Hon. Nishi.) "How many times I told you about carelus manner you twist the handle-crank of Hon. Machine to danger life & 11m of pas sengers on sidewalk? I warn you oncely again & no more, impu dent Japanese puppy-cat of a Chaffer! Will you obey or go jail?" "I will obey, please!" revoke my Hero with stotter of voice, which is sure simptom of timid frite. v So slowly Nishi continue on with chaste & plus ottomobile. He let me sadly off befront of Patriots of Japan Boarding & Lodging; and when I alighted down It were a society scandal among Japanese naybors. Running back & forthly; throw-open of windows; and nearly a riot every wheres. I were such a celebrated person & manicure of every eye, so I was oblige to tip Hon. Nishi 10c & dismiss him with proud ' expression. Honks from him. When I intend to go to my room I were escorted by 2 5 Japanese friends to include Uncle Nlshl with kimono & derby hat. I escape to my bedstead & lock away their questions which Is less Intelligent. Pretty soonly little Annie Anazuma make tap-tap to my door. I permit her enter because she are childish & require education. "How do it feel to ride In a ottomobile, TJncle Togo?" she ask-it. "Childly Japanese," I renlg, "if you wish to have the sensa tions you ask you must put your head in a flour sack & Jump off a high building." "I should not care try such a jump," say Annie, "because I are not used to It." "Never try It for first time," I exasperate. "Because who knows when it might become a habit?" So I go-sleep quite weary. Hoping you are the same. Yours truly, HASHIMTTRA TOGO. : (Copyright by P. F. Collier & Son.) tFMBlEf? OF TBBEE--Wl&F AND JENATOK fWOM WREE SffiTE, BY RICHARD SPILLAXE. In Statuary Hall at Washington. tho Valhalla of the great Republic, you will find a memorial to James Shields. CMany of those who stop before the bit of stone never heard of Shields, or. If they have heard, remember him; yet In all history there are few men who were the peers : of Shields in gallantry, In valorous en deavor or in remarkable experiences. He was & 14th century character In a 19th century setting, who played well his part from the day when, a lad of 15. he crossed the hills of Tyrone to fight a duel with one of "Wellington's veterans, until, war-worn, battle-scarred, broken in body, poor in purse, but rich in honors and occupying the highest office the land of his adoption could give him, the cur icln fell and his wonderful career closed. Shields was born in Altmore. Ireland. May 6. 1506. It was a time of strife and struggle. All Europe was in the throes of war. Mighty battles were being fought, empires were crumbling, thrones were I tottering and the whole world seemed to ' lie In convulsion. To the homes of the Shields family came soldiers who had fought on the Continent or in the penin sula under the Iron Duke, or In Italy, in Prussia, 1n Russia or on the Danube un der the great Corsican. By the fireside at night the warriors talked of sieges and sorties, of deeds of daring and devotion, of campaigns and armies, of the Little Corporal who dazzled the world with his military genius, and of the man who crushed him on the field of Waterloo. The boy who listened to these tales was singularly impressionable and emotional. Before he could read or write he played the soldier. He drilled his little play mates, built forts, charged the enemy's intrenchments and fought as only a boy. spurred by the enthusiasm of youth, can fight. Whatever he got in the way of military preparation he obtained in those days. Great soldier certainly he proved himself. Great commander he certainly was not. He could handle a brigade, but not a division. Perhaps that was due 1e the fact that the veterans who watched tho boys in battle and taught them what llltle they knew of tactics were soldiers oT that old school that embraced In its curriculum much of the pageantry and heroics of war with little of the science. From one of Wellington's captains Shields took lessons in swordsmanship. and 60 adept did he prove himself that lie became one of the beat swordsmen of his time. The Iiincoln "Duel." , Ireland offered little to a youth who craved adventure and whose dreams were of the great world of achievement. Amer ica seemed to the boy the land of prom ise and when he was 16 he sailed away serosa the Atlantic. One of his uncles had been In the War of the Revolution and In the War of 1S12. but when the youth reached America the uncle was dead. Business had little attraction for Shields, so he turned to the sea for a livelihood. The vessel on which he shipped furnished more of excitement than he bargained for. It was wrecked on the Carolina coast. and when it struck. Fhields, who was in the ringing, was 1 hrown to the deck and had both legs broken. Hardly had his bones mended than he had lus first chance in actual warfare. The Indians in Florida were making trouble and an expedition was organised to so against them. Shields volunteered. He got a commission as a lieutenant, served with distinction, received two Slight wounds and. when the Indians sur. rendered, he turned to what was then the Far West. Out In Kaskaskla. 111., then a. frontier metropolis, he established him self. Kaskaskla has long since disap peared, swallowed up by the Mississippi but In those days It was a trading post at which Indians, Frenchmen and Amert cans gathered in considerable number. ' In 183a he was elected a member of the Illinois Legislature. Stephen A, Douglas. I.yman Trumbull and Abra ham Lincoln were members of the same body. When his legislative term ended he was elected Stat Auditor and served two terms. ; It was in 1842. while he was Stat Auditor. that h had his famous en- Sizr or the Ball TRATPlERCEb atCcrroCordo counter with Lincoln. It was a time of bitter partisanship. Shields and Lin coln were members of opposing parties. Newspapers were given to malevolent personalities, and few men In public life were spared. Out of some happening- in the State Auditor's office, a con troversy arose that stirred the passions of many men. Shields was lampooned unmercifully In a series of articles that appeared in one of the Whig newspapers, and that were known as the "Rebecca of the Lost Township letters." Shields was rather vain regarding his good looks. He was five foot nine, distinguished looking, something of a dandy and ex- 1 tremely sensitive to criticism. The Rebecca letters were cleverly satirical and drove Snields to frenzy. He de manded the name of the author from the editor, and when Lincoln assumed the responsibility Shields challenged him to a duel. The challenge was ac cepted, and swords were selected as the weapons. Against such an antagonist as Shields, Lincoln had little or no chance, and had they met there might have been different chapters in history from tnose tnat nave been chronicled of the Nation, but the seconds were men of sense, and when they learned that Lin coln had written only one of the letters and that most of the others were penned by Mary Todd, with whom Lin coln was in love and who later became his wife, they decided that the afrair did not warrant a hostile meeting. Lin coln was prevailed upon to write such a letter as would permit Shields to withdraw bis challenge, and he did so. "Your conduct toward me," Lincoln wrote, "so far as I know, has always been gentlemanly. I had no personal grudge against you and no cause for any. I had no Intention of injuring your personal or private character or offending you as a man or a gentle man." The whole affair was ridiculous. Lin coln never referred to it except with chagrin. He acted throughout in a most manly spirit, but his political ene mies made the most they could of the "duel" to his disparagement. Shields, on the other hand, gained public ap plause, and In the following year was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the state to succeed Stephen A Douglas. But he did not remain on the bench long. President Polk ap polrrred him Land Commissioner of th United States, and he was in Washing ton occupying this office when th war with Mexico began. Cerro Gordo. It was in this war that Shields earned his greatest laurels and became a Ka tional hero. He was commissioned i Brigadier-General and put In command of volunteers from South Carolina. Illi nois and New Torlc Along the Rio Grande he served under General Zach ary Taylr, and after tho battle of Buena Vista he and his command Joined the forces of General Wlnfleld Scott at Vera Cruz and took a leading part In that marvelous campaign which earned for Scott undying fame. Scott himself won no higher laurels In the eyes of the public than did Shields. It was at Cerro Gardo that Shields became a National figure. He was leading a charge of one of the wings of the army when a grapeshot struck him In the right breast. The bullet, which was 1 1-3 Inches in diam eter as big as the marbles with tcik boys play in Summer days passed Into th right lung, and. going through the body, came out of his back alongside iua oyine. In 999 cases out of 1000 such grievous wound would result fatally, but. as Shields lay on the ground, bid ding farewell to his companions, a French surgeon, who had been serving in the Mexican army and had been taken prisoner, begged permission to examine the wound. Calling for a ram rod and a silk handkerchief, he bound the handkerchief about the ramrod and forced the handkerchief through the General's body. Then h pulled th handkerchief through th wound until re naa cleared away all the coagulated blood. Then he dressed the wound as well as he could. In 75 days Shields was In th saddle again and had re sumed command of his brigade. At the battle of Contreras. where he was in charge of the right wins of th army, he was shot In the arm. This was 15 days after he had returned to duty. The wound was slight and did not In terfere with him talking: part in the battle of Cherubusco, and he was one of th first to climb th heights of Chapul tepec and drlv tho Mexicans Into th City of Mexico. When Scott Rebuked Him. After Chapultepec h had charge of the force at the Belera gate In tho In vestment of the city. Here he was guilty of an act of folly which, how ever, much It merited military cen sure, served only to add to his popu larity with th public Into his camp there came one night an English boy who lived in the city with his mother and sister. The boy fell on his knees before th General and begged him to save his mother from death and his sister from worse than death. The boy said that one of Santa Ana's chiefs, a leader of a band of braves, infatuated with th English girl. planned1 to seize her, kill the English If necessary and escape from the city with the girl. To a romantic minded, impulsive man like Shields, such a story made strong appeal. torgettlng his duty to his command and his orders from the com manding general, ho called for volun teers to go to the rescue of the girl and her mother. Four hundred men re sponded. Into th city where Santa Ana's s.rmy lay Intrenched. Shields and his 00 went late at night, led by ths English boy. They . reached th house, got the two women out and started back for camp. But they had not' proceeded far when an alarm was raised. Shots were fired and It was by the greatest good luck only that the band of volunteers managed to escape capture and death. When General Scott heard what had occurred, he was furious. Ha threatened Shields with court-martial, rebuked him publicly and probably would have relieved him of command had not more Important matters claimed his atten tion within a few hours. Th more Im portant matters had to do with tho crowning triumph of th war the cap ture of the capital. Here, again. Shields offended. General Scott planned to give to General Quitman the honor of be ing the first to enter the city and raise the American flag, but Shields, im patient of delay, rushed the Belem gate and raised the Stars and Stripes in advance of the General's programme. Elected Senator. A victorious people are forgiving of a brave. Impetuous man, and when Shields returned to the United States he was greeted as one of the great heroes of the war. What did a few infractions of th military order sig nify? Illinois, eager to do him honor, elected him a member of tho United States Senate, and in 1S48 he went to Washington to take his seat. His col league was Douglas. In the Senate at that time were Webster, Clay, Cal houn and other great statesmen. It is not of record that Shields won renown In that august body, but some of the speeches he made show a homely wisdom and a grasp of the leading Questions of the day that are highly creditable to his intellectual capacity. When his term as Senator closed, President Pierce appointed him Ter ritorial Governor of Oregon. He did not accept but came East and took up his residence in Minnesota. He estab lished the town of Shields, and in 1858, the first Legislature of Minnesota sent him to the United States Senate once more. Ke got the short term of two years and when his service ended in 1860, he went -o California. There is a pleasant story, probably apocryphal, that he narrowly escaped election by California to the United States Senate, his determination to go East alone preventing it. However that may be, he was In New Mexico when Fort Sumter was fired on. With all haste he hurried eastward and offered his services to the Federal Govern ment. He was commissioned Brigadier Gneral and sent to the Shenandoah "Valley. There he won and ther he lost whatever renown came to him In the War of the Rebellion. In April, 1862, he was In command at the battle of Winchester and defeated Stonewall Jackson. It was the first and only de feat the great soldier of the Confed eracy sustained. Perhaps Shields re ceived too much credit for that victory. Defeated Stonewall Jackson. Those were trying days for tho North. Defeats were many and suc cesses few. Shields loomed large in the public eye, and the country rang with his name. In fact, it is said that Sec retary of War Stanton seriously con sidered placing him in command of tho Army of tho Potomac and visited him at his headquarters with that end in view. The Army of the Potomac was In dire need of a vigorous general at that time. But If Stanton or tho Presi dent had any such Idea they soon abandoned It, for In tho battle of Port Republic, where Shields was desperate ly wounded by the bursting of a Bhell, and where he planned and fully ex pected to annihilate Jackson's forces, tho Confederates won a decisive vic tory, so decisive that Shields, mortified that his account of how the defeat re sulted' not from his being wounded in tho action, but from tho failure of one of his subordinates to obey orders was not accepted, resigned In dis gust. He sought retirement In California, but the wanderlust had possession of him. and he drifted East again. In Missouri he took up his homo and served one term in the Legislature of that state. In 1875 he was elected Representative In Con gress, but the election was contested and the Republican majority ousted him- And now there came the drab, the bitter, the sorrowful days of this man's life. Never much of a business man, never provident, crippled by his many wounds, old and failing, and suffering much in body and spirit, he was unfitted for any real work, so he sought to support him self by lecturing. Around the country he went, from small town to small town, addressing audiences. He was eloquent, brilliant almost, but the Nation was weary of war and stories of war, and there was little of profit to tho old, bat tered campaigner, as shown through the box-office. Many times his pockets were lean to emptiness. But IX there was lit tle of profit to hiroslf, he was willing enough to help others, if he could, and when tho 'South was stricken with yellow fever In the Summer of 1278 no one did more within his power than did the broken-down old warrior. Of the half dozen lectures he delivered for the benefit of the sufferers the last , was 1n the Academy of Music. Brooklyn. on September 26, 1S78. Many great audi ences had assembled In that house, but never one to equal that which greeted Shields. From the time he arrived In Jersey City until he departed tho day after the lecture a guard of honor from the Irish Brigade attended him, and the leading men of New York and Brooklyn gathered round him on the stage. And while men applauded him wildly few knew of his- poverty and his needs. At last too weak physically to stand the strain of traveling, unable to earn a living in private life, he went before the Congress of the United States and sought the position of doorkeeper. The House was Democratic, and Shields, twice a United States Senator, hero of three wars, scarred with 12 wounds, had little longer to live. General Benjamin F. Butler placed him in nomination. Ho told of the Gen eral's poverty, of his wounds, of his struggles, of the pathetic last phase of a career without parallel in American history. But Congress was swayed by politics, not pathos. Shields was re jected. However bitter the old soldier's feel ings may have been when he hobbled away from the Capitol; however dark the future may have seemed, fate had in store for him a curious turn, a crowning triumph such as no other man In American life has had. Missouri elected him United States Senator- sent him back to Washing ton, made him a member of the upper branch of that Congress, the lower of which a few weeks before had refused to have him as doorkeeper. And so, for tho third time. James Shields, plaything of fortune, became a Senator of the United States. The sands of life were running low with the old soldier when he took the oath for the third time and he was In his seat only a few times. His last ap pearance in the Capitol was on March 4, 1879. On June 1 of that year he died at Ot tumwa. Ia., where ho had gone to deliver an address. Ho was burled at Carroll ton, Mo. And when he was dead more honor was paid to him than when he lived. Con gresa appropriated S16.000 to buy his swords the swords that Shields had to pawn a little while before he died. Tho second monument that was placed in America's Valhalla was the statue of Shields. There it is today, with those of Washington, Lincoln, Grant and other great Americans. South Carolina. Minne sota. Illinois and Missouri laid laurels on his tomb. Poets sang his praise. The school children of one state contributed their pennies until thousands of dollars had been collected. Then they raised a monument in his memory. And they de clared that it needed no epitaph. The name SHIELDS was enough. And they had th monument made of rough granite, because it typified hla character, rugged and sturdy and true. (Copyright. 1909. by Richard SplUsne. Bishop Potter's Cornbread Recipe. Among the many things that the late Bishop Potter knew was a first-class recipe for cornbread. There Is nothing better and nothing easier to make well. Take one and one-quarter cups of corn meal to one quart of boiling water, one teasponful of salt and a desert spoon of butter. Put all the materials Into a big bowl and pour over them the boil ing water, beating the mixture to gether thoroughly. Let it stand for ten or fifteen minutes before you pour It Into buttered pan. It must not be more than an Inch and a half thick, as the corn bread is tho thin kind. ana must De baked brown and crisp. Why a Poett Why should a man be a poet A great big, healthy man Who might be puddling a furnace. Or driving a furniture van? Why should a man be a poet? Why should he dare refuse To put out his hand to a shovel. But hang to the skirts of the Muse? Why should a man bo a poet? What Is th reason that he Should take it for granted a lady Should support hlra In luxury? Why should a man be a poet? Why should he dodge and shirk The labor that good men are doing Why doesn't he go to work? Why should a man be a poet? Why should he wander In quest Of flowers In the fields of Parnassus When farmhands are needed out West? Why should a man be a poet? Why should he handle the pen With lily-white fingers when railroads Are looking for traclc-laylng menT Why should a man be a poet? Why should he stroll on the shore At his ease by th sea of the lotus. While the muscles of millions are sore? Why should a man be a poet? Why should he build away His fabrics of faney while masons Are earning five dollars a day? Why should a man be a poet? Why should he sing like a bird While the rest of us work for arriving? God knows, and He won't say a wordl Exohanga.