Grant Poetry: 1880

NEWS SHIP.

A Ship It is a Sailing, Sailing, O'er
the Sea, and It is Deeply
Laden With Items
All for Thee.

News of Battles In the Cabin¹, and of
Injuns In the Hold², the Sales
were 'lection Marshals³
the Masts were Sher-
man's Gold⁴.

Forty Thousand Sailors Flocking
to the Show, Forty Thou-
sand Stalwarts all
for Chicago.⁵

The Captain was a Gen'ral, the
Convention in His Pant, and
Every Time He Said
"Thumbs up" the Del-
egates Said

Grant.

(The Argus, 2 June 1880.)

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