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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREATEST OF WEAPONS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON
First Line: The jawbone samson swung was great--it served its purpose well
Last Line: As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of babe ruth!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Baseball; Sports
First Line: The jawbone samson swung was great--it served its purpose well
Last Line: As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of babe ruth!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Baseball; Sports
THE jawbone Samson swung was great—it served its purpose well—
And many a tyrant fell before the shafts of William Tell—
The ax of Coeur de Lion cleft the Paynim to the chin,
And dreadful was the scimitar of Sultan Saladin!
The knife that Colonel Bowie made is sung in Southern tune,
While the long rifle grandly helped the hand of Daniel Boone!
Bat Masterson's revolver sent full many a foeman down,
The ancient cannon Cortez used smote many an Aztec town—
In childhood days we often read, with many a splendid thrill,
About the lance of Sitting Bull, the Sword of Bunker Hill—
But there's no weapon which, to-day, makes such appeal to youth,
As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of Babe Ruth!
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