Classic Poem

An Arab came to the river side,
With a donkey bearing an obelisk;
But he would not try to ford the tide,
For he had too good an .
Boston Globe

So he camped all night by the river side,
And he remained till the tide ceased to swell,
For he knew should the donkey from life subside,
He never would find its ------.
Salem Sunbeam

When the morning dawned, and tide was out,
The pair crossed over 'neath Allah's protection;
And the Arab was happy, we have no doubt,
For he had the best donkey in all that §.
Somerville Journal

You are wrong, they were drowned in crossing over,
Though the donkey was bravest of all his race;
He luxuriates now in horse-heaven clover,
And his master has gone to the Prophet's #.
Elevated Railway Journal

These asinine poets deserved to be "blowed,"
Their rhymes being faulty and frothy and beery;
What really befell the ass and its load
Will ever remain a desolate ?.
Paper and Print

Our Yankee friends, with all their------
For once, we guess, their mark have missed;
And with poetry Paper and Print is rash
In damming its flow with its editor's .

In parable and moral leave a between,
For reflection, or your wits fall out of joint;
The "Arab," ye see, is a printing machine,
And the donkey is he who can't see the .