AT Billy Miller's Circus-Show -- In their old stable where it's at -- The boys pays twenty pins to go, An' gits their money's-worth at that! -- 'Cause Billy he can climb and chalk His stockin'-feet an' purt' nigh walk A tight-rope -- yes, an' @3ef@1 he fall He'll ketch, an' "skin a cat" -- 'at's all! He ain't afeard to swing and hang Ist by his legs! -- an' mayby stop An' yell "Look out!" an' nen -- k-spang! -- He'll let loose, upside-down, an' drop Wite on his hands! An' nen he'll do "Contortion-acts" -- ist limber through As "Injarubber Mens" 'at goes With shore-fer-certain circus-shows! At Billy Miller's Circus-Show He's got a circus-ring -- an' they's A dressin'-room, -- so's he can go An' dress an' paint up when he plays He's somepin' else; -- 'cause sometimes he's "Ringmaster" -- bossin' like he please -- An' sometimes "Ephalunt" -- er "Bare- Back Rider," prancin' out o' there! An' sometimes -- an' the best of all! -- He's "The Old Clown," an' got on clo'es All stripud, -- an' white hat, all tall An' peakud -- like in shore-'nuff shows, -- An' got three-cornered red-marks, too, On his white cheeks -- ist like they do! -- An' you'd ist die, the way he sings An' dances an' says funny things! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FUCHSIA HEDGES IN CONNACHT by PADRAIC COLUM THE MESSAGES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON NEAR DOVER, SEPTEMBER 1802 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |