Jim Brown by Edgar Lee Masters — Read

While I was handling Dom Pedro / I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are / For singing "Turkey in the Straw" or "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood" --

(Like Rile Potter used to sing it over at Concord);

For cards, or for Rev. Peet's lecture on the holy land;

For skipping the light fantastic, or passing the plate;

For Pinafore, or a Sunday school cantata;

For men, or for money;

For the people or against them.

This was it:

Rev. Peet and the Social Purity Club, / Headed by Ben Pantier's wife, / Went to the Village trustees, / And asked them to make me take Dom Pedro / From the barn of Wash McNeely, there at the edge of town, / To a barn outside of the corporation, / On the ground that it corrupted public morals.

Well, Ben Pantier and Fiddler Jones saved the day --

They thought it a slam on colts.