Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/"No Shildren In Der House."

by Charles Follen Adams

"NO SHILDREN IN DER HOUSE."

Vagation dime vas coom again,

Vhen dhere vas no more shgool; I goes to boardt, der coundtry oudt,

Vhere id vas nice und cool. I dakes Katrina und Loweeze,

Und leedle Yawcob Strauss; Budt at der boarding-house dhey dakes

" No shildren in der house."

I dells you vot! Some grass don'd grow

Under old Yawcob's feet Undil ve gets a gouple-a-miles

Or so vay down der shtreet.

I foundt oudt all I vanted—

For de resd I don'd vould care —

Dot boarding-blace vas nix for me Yhen dhere been no shildren dhere.

Vot vas der hammocks, und der shvings,

Grokay, und dings like dhese, Und der hoogleperry bicnics,

Mitoudt Yawcob und Loweeze? It vas von shdrange conondhrum,

Dot vas too mooch tor Strauss, How all dhose beople shtandt id

Mit no shildren in der house.

"Oh, vot vas all dot eardthly bliss, Und vot vas man's soocksess;

Und vot vas various kindt off dings, Und vot vas habbincss?"

Dot's vot Hans Breitmann ask, von dime-

Dhey all vas embty soundt! Dot eardthly bliss vas nodings

Vhen dhere vas no shildren roundt.

Vhen "man's soockscss," down here pelow,

Und "eardthly bliss" vas past, Und in dot beddher blace abofe

Ve seek a home at last; Oh, may dhose "Gates off Paradise"

Shving open far und vide, Und ve see dhose "Heafenly mansions"

Mit der shildren all inside.