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Title: Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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DRAW-BRIDGES. THE FOLK-LORE MEETINGS AT THE ART PALACE. 303 And the Southern Cross hangs over the seaLike the jewels of Heaven ? Ah, me ! ah, me !Those gardens of gold in the opal main,How they tempted the souls of the pilots of Spain !But as John the old Sailor was wont to say,When he told old tales in his comical way, T is only the gold that does good that is good —And only the rightful gold is gain.Alas for the spoil of the pilots of Spain!Twas fools gold all. Our John was a sailor, Sailor John,A grizzly old sailor of Provincetown Bay,And one queer old tale that he used to tellBy the bright fire-dogs to the boys now gone,And the fisher-folk — I remember well.He would tell it to us in his odd old way,After the revels on Christmas Day,And at evening after the hours of play.He would lock his hands and strike them uponHis knees, like this: chink, chink, chink, chink.It sounds like coins of gold, I know,It sounds like coins of gold — but oh,When you open your hands there is nothin

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