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C J Dennis - `Billy`
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At the risk of seeming silly,
I would ask you,  "Where is Billy?"
   Here`s a crisis, here`s a fight,
   And he`s missing.  Strike a light!
Blithering blazes!  Here`s a mill -
Rough house stuff; and where`s our Bill?


Where`s the speech with phrases frilly,
Trouncing foemen willy nilly,
   Waving arms, gesticulations,
   Posturing and wild gyrations?
Briefly, where`s the vaudeville
That, in olden days was Bill?


Where`s the harsh voice, rising shrilly
To uphold the views of Billy?
  Far too grave grow politics,
  Lacking all his circus tricks.
Missing!  Missing!  And, alack!
Some folk say he won`t come back.


Not so I.  I see him dreaming
In some chamber, planning, scheming,
   Till, when we are on the verge
   Of disaster, he`ll emerge
With the only sane, safe plan,
For deliverance of man.


Then with one fine, regal, gesture,
He will don again the vesture
   Of authority and right,
   Crying, "Come, I see the light!" . . . .
Gosh!  But wouldn`t we look silly
If once more we followed Billy?
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