Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/Der Deutscher's Maxim
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DER DEUTSCHER'S MAXIM.
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- Dheke vas vot you call a maxim
- Dot I hear der oder day,
- Und I wride id in mine album,
- So id don'd could got avay;
- Und I dells mine leedle Yawcob
- He moost mind vot he's aboudt;
- "'Tis too late to lock der shtable
- Vhen der horse he vas gone oudt."
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- Vhen I see ubon der corners
- Off der shtreets, most efry night,
- Der loafers und der hoodlums,
- Who do nix but shvear und fight,
- I says to mine Katrina,
- "Let us make home bright und gay;
- Ve had petter lock der shtable,
- So our colts don'd got avay."
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- Vhen you see dhose leedle urchins,
- Not mooch ofer knee-high tall,
- Shump righdt indo der melon-patch,
- Shust owf der garden vall,
- Und vatch each leedle rashkell
- Vhen he cooms hack mit hees "boodle,"
- Look oudt und lock your shtable,
- So your own nag don'd shkydoodle!
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- Vben der young man at der counter
- Vants to shpecgulate in shtocks,
- Und buys hees girl some timond rings,
- Und piles righdt oup der rocks,
- Look oudt for dot young feller;
- Id vas safe enuff to say
- Dot der shtable id vas empty,
- Und der horse vas gone avay.
- Dhen dake Time by der fetlock:
- Don'd hurry droo life's courses;
- Rememper vot der boet says,
- "Life's but a shpan"—off horses.
- Der poy he vas der comin' man;
- Be careful vhile you may;
- Shust keep der shtable bolted,
- Und der horse don'd got avay.