 And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied : I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had — To treat his engine well, Never be passed on the river, To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle...  Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal - Page 5201899Full view - About this book
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1921 - 462 pages
...bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle again the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1921 - 470 pages
...bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle again the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1922 - 424 pages
...warn't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1923 - 442 pages
...warn't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, j . And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed.... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - American poetry - 1923 - 552 pages
...ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank 20 Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she would n't be passed. 25 And so... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1923 - 648 pages
...bell; 20 And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle again the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats...their day on the Mississip, And her day came at last — 26 The Movastar was a better boat, But Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she came tearin' along... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 664 pages
...warn't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, And so she came tearin' along that night — The... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 666 pages
...war'n't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, And so she came tearin' along that night — The... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - American poetry - 1925 - 448 pages
...man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, — And this was all the religion he had, — To treat...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | William Rose Benét - American poetry - 1925 - 576 pages
...mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. * This poem is used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the... | |
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