WHAT if the new San Francisco should sail To Chilian waters away, With the Boston and Yorktown afar in the east, 'Nd the Lancaster off in Bombay; 'Nd the big Philadelphia -- s'posin' she wuz A-loadin' with tea in Japan, With the Concord and Bennington flyin' so gay Their colors around Hindostan; 'Nd s'posin' the Charleston wuz in Bering Sea, With the Newark in Pamlico Sound, 'Nd the Miantonomah's big bilers should bust, 'Nd the Baltimore run hard aground; Then s'posin' we got in a fight right away With Chili or even Peru, 'Nd England should work the shell game on New York, Say -- what in the deuce would we do? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS LINES WRITTEN BY A DEATH-BED by MATTHEW ARNOLD BEYOND THE BARS by GEORGE E. BOWEN THE JOURNEY by ANNE MILLAY BREMER OLNEY HYMNS: 33. THE WAITING SOUL by WILLIAM COWPER THE HOME PORT by EDITH PRATT DICKENS QUO VADIS? by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY WRITTEN IN ILL HEALTH AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by SUSAN EVANCE |