Erie

<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>Erie</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> (from Songs Of The Great Lakes)</div> <div>     </div> <div> <I><B>She's shallow an' muddy an' mean,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She's chuck full of sandbars an' such,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She's pretty when ca'm an' serene,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But she's never that way very much,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You hardly kin sai by the chart,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Her shoals keep a-shiftin' around,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You'll think that you know her by heart</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When--</B></I><I><B>crunch!</B></I><I><B>--an' yer boat is aground.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>She's blowsy an' bleary,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' nasty--is Erie,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' allus just ripe fer a squall;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She makes us all weary </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' ugly, does Erie,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The meanest old lake of them all!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Superior's icy an' rough,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' Huron is ugly at times,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Old Michigan's frequently tough,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Old Erie--out there in the East--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Has got 'em all distanced in style;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She's a most undependable beast,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With a temper that's certainly vile.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>You want to be leery</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' careful of Erie,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She's husky although she is small;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>A pugnacious dearie,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>A fighter--is Erie--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The meanest old lake of them all!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>She's choppy an' fickle an' slick</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>One minute she's sweet as a dream,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The next--she'll be makin' you sick,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' standin' the ship on her beam.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The wind-jammers hates her like sin,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The steamers is fond of her--not--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She'd ought to be pinched an' run in,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She's the wickedest one of the lot.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="popular_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Popular Magazine"><U><I>The Popular Magazine </I></U></A><I>- April 1, 1911</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> <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>