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Eugene Field - The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway
Work rating: Medium

A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;
A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;
Some postal cars, and baggage, too; a vestibule of patent make;
With buffers, duffers, switches, and the soughing automatic brake—
This is the Orient`s novel pride, and Syria`s gaudiest modern gem:
The railway scheme that is to ply `twixt Jaffa and Jerusalem.

Beware, O sacred Mooley cow, the engine when you hear its bell;
Beware, O camel, when resounds the whistle`s shrill, unholy swell;
And, native of that guileless land, unused to modern travel`s snare,
Beware the fiend that peddles books—the awful peanut-boy beware.
Else, trusting in their specious arts, you may have reason to condemn
The traffic which the knavish ply `twixt Jaffa and Jerusalem.

And when, ah, when the bonds fall due, how passing wroth will wax the
state
From Nebo`s mount to Nazareth will spread the cry "Repudiate"!
From Hebron to Tiberius, from Jordan`s banks unto the sea,
Will rise profuse anathemas against "that —— monopoly!"
And F.M.B.A. shepherd-folk, with Sockless Jerry leading them,
Will swamp that corporation line `twixt Jaffa and Jerusalem.
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