54 

 SWINE. 



The Committee on Swine make the following Report 



Your Swine Committee, painfully aware 

 How great the work entrusted to their care, 

 Feeling, alas ! too well a mighty dread 

 Of what they know 's impending o'er their head-— 

 Euin, horror, and destruction, should they dare 

 Or chance to shrink from duty's line a hair, 

 Knowing they ne'er again in that dread case 

 Their fellow-man, or pig, could boldly face, 

 Trembling, at jSrst, and, it must be confessed, 

 Growing more timid as the work progressed, 

 Until they fairly shook within their shoes. 

 Lest they might e'en their reputations lose. 

 Have labored, since the earliest dawn of light 

 Dispelled with deep'ning glow the shades of night, 

 Uncheered save by the casual grunt and squeal 

 Which on their ears at times did gently steal. 

 Duties like these ne'er fell to the -lot of man, 

 So all-important, since the world began ; 

 Eesponsibilities so vast indeed 

 Were ne'er before to mortal man decreed ; 

 Not great Napoleon on that awful day 

 Which saw at Waterloo, in proud array, 

 That mighty force — but still too weak to save 

 Him from his destined fate — an exile's grave ; 

 Not Russia, when the Allied Powers declared 

 What either one alone had never dared — 

 " You shan't have Turkey to yourself, 'taint fair; 

 If she must be cut up we want our share." 

 Not mighty Walker, when on hapless Lawrence 

 Tell his great rage in overwhelming torrents, 

 Because they'd dared, defiantly, to take 

 Charge of their own aflPairs, and to make 

 A city government, and choose a mayor — 

 Tremendous crime ! Pray God it may be rare. 

 Not one of these was half so much perplexed — 

 Not one knew less what would or might come next — 

 Not one of them e'er saw before his eyes 

 Labor in such tremendous mountains rise- 



