YOU bet that folks up here this week Set up and noticed, when they read How much it cost in old Vermont To keep an inside horse ahead; It's quite a generous sum to pay To show the voters what they want; It also shows the need of dough To run for office in Vermont. I guess a lot of common folks Will add, subtract and then divide To see jest why it comes so high To keep an outside horse outside; You wouldn't s'pose 'twould cost so much To show the voters what they want— It ain't no place for poor folks, sure, To run for office in Vermont. I guess that Edmunds when he read That item made an Edmunds pause, And wondered why a man will spend So much to help to make the laws; I guess if Morrill might return To earth from his eternal jaunt He'd think that office comes quite high These days in honest old Vermont. I'd like to be "upstairs" and hear What Foot and Collamer will say When they find out how much it costs To draw the senatorial pay; I guess you'd hear 'em both remark— "There ain't a single thing we want; We bless the Lord that we are through With candidating in Vermont." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FICTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON O SOUTHLAND! by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ON LIVING, FROM LIFE IS A DREAM by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA GOOD-BYE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON SMOKE IN WINTER by HENRY DAVID THOREAU THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |