Blissful Anticipation

Hard times are on us now,

You can read it on our brow,

And in the region of our pocketbook it’s twenty times more plain;

            But nights we sit and think

            Of the old time sil’vry chink,

And of the times hilarious when we get flush again.

Aug. 8, 1893

 Pub. in B.

Courier, Nov. 5

     ‘93