A Hardy Perennial

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>A Hardy Perennial</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Way back in the ultimate mist of the ages,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When most of the country was not on the map,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When politics seemed in its earliest stages,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And running elections was really a snap,--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>`Way back in those times there would happen a season</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When loud was the trumpeting, wild was the call,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And Echo would answer, when asked for the reason:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>“They're putting the Kibosh on Tammany Hall!”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Now, every so often the stunt is repeated,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There's plenty of fireworks and oceans of noise,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The “good men” wind out and the “gang” is defeated.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There's nary a portion of “pie” for the “boys.”</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Reformers are jubilant, blithely declaring</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The city is free of this “tigerish thrall,”</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And newspaper headlines are shrieking and blaring:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>“They're putting the Kibosh on Tammany Hall!”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>But somehow, when all of the tumult is finished,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And everything's lovely and quiet once more,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Tiger lives on with a vim undiminished</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And feeds at the crib just the same as before.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Five thousand years hence, in your reincarnation,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You'll probably land in the midst of it all,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And find the “good people” with wild jubilation</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Still “putting the Kibosh on Tammany Hall!”</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="puck_s_weekly_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pucks Weekly Magazine"><U><I>Puck's Weekly magazine</I></U></A><I> - November 1, 1922</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>