It's Only Fair

<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>It's Only Fair</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Mother has had a heap of praise</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And she deserves it, goodness knows;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But it is seldom that we gaze</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>On any poetry--or prose</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That speaks of Dad, so I propose</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To make the Old Man's spirit glad</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>By slipping him his due. here goes,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I sing a little song to Dad!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Throughout his life he spends the days</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In earning cash to pay for hose</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And shoes and suits and rent; he pays</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And pays and pays, yet seldom shows</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Impatience as his burden grows;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>He keeps us housed and fed and clad,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In summer's heat, in winter's snows,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>--I sing a little song to Dad!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>He understands our little ways</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>He sympathizes with our woes,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Our schemes he aids, our games he plays,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And deep within his heart there glows</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>A love he doesn't much disclose,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But which outlasts good times and bad</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Withstanding all fate's stoutest blows;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I sing a little song for Dad!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>                      Envoy</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>It's seldom any one bestows</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>the praise that Father should have had,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But--here's the debt that one man owes,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I sing a little song for Dad!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><U><I>Hurdy-Gurdy On The Olympus</I></U></A><I> - 1927</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> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>