Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1910 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

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I’d hate to be a city park, For I should shrink with doubt When people came to fence me in, For fear they’d lay me out. Td hate to be a house and lot— ■ To grief I should be moved When people came and said: "It’s not So very well improved.” ■ • Td hate to be a harvest field— Such fate would make me bawl; Unless my presence were concealed They’d thresh me every fall. __ Td hate to be a mountain high— Indeed, I’d be'appalled If people climbed to find out why I was so very bald. I d hate to be a little brook— This feeling is not shammed. For mill prospectors might but look And then I might be dammed.