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 COCK AND THE BULL by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY THE BLACK RIDERS: 9 by STEPHEN CRANE THE RUSH OF THE OREGON by ARTHUR GUITERMAN THE SEA GYPSY [OR GIPSY] by RICHARD HOVEY THE MOSS ROSE by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 12. ON RECOVERING FROM A FIT OF SICKNESS IN COUNTRY by MARK AKENSIDE A NYMPH TO A YOUNG SHEPHERD, INSENSIBLE OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |