G. R. Sims on Bismarck's Resignation.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 436, 1 April 1890, Page 2

G. R. Sims on Bismarck's Resignation.

[A Pbofhecy.] The son rose red o’er all the world, the moon had screamed and flown ; The wind was hushed, the ocean still ; tho awful news was known. With troops of special constables the capitals were lined, For on the sky these words appeared t * Prince Bismarck has resigned !' Vesuvius erupted fast, the rivers burst their bounds, There was a run on all the banks for several million pounds. Ten thousand treaties then were drawn the potentates to bind; Ana]ktogdom« rocked themselves to sleep, for Bismarck had resigned 1 Then mothers seized their babes and fled to undiscovered spheres— A yawning earthquake swallowed up the British House of Peers ; The Fatherland went off in pops, no pieces cnuld they find, And earth fl tw off to endless space, for Bisrnarck had resigned. That night the true Now Zealander arrived with carpet bag, And on tha ruins of a world he stuck hie native flag; And there alone he smokes hie pipe, and whispers to the wind—■lt's very lonely here at nights, now Bismarck has resigned.’ Perchance in other happier days, when r people could not read, Less fatal the result had been of Bismarck’s dreaded deed; Perobanos a weaker race of mon would mutter * Never mind I The world may just as well go on, though Bismarck hat resigned.’ The Gisborne Standard adds— A prophet in those modern days is never worth a jot, For his prophecies are wrong more oftentimes than not; Now, we've Bizzy's resignation, that dreaded thing,, at last; " Accepted,” wrote young WilUam, and the World survived the blast