If you have ever visited a Press Club, you find often many mischief makers. Remember the Face on Mars? Ever hear of the ink blotch tests where some see demons and others see angels? Could not help but think of Bill Shannon when I read this one.....you know we Irish have terrible name for being drinkers....... Did you ever notice when you see an old movie and a pregnant peasant on a donkey, usually Mexican, they play holy music? So I thought about this all, and it is my hope those 7 million illegal immigrants that the Republicans are trying to be made legal - I hope they are all Catholic and believe Elian really talked to dolphins......and man, they would out number that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton bunch who are thieves using the name of God to make God Almighty Buck? So I thought of this old poem when I read of the face of Christ appearing to some, even if it was on a piece of toast.....rather face of Christ on a Wall rather than the devil in our Oval Office? Saba Mail message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aleisha Saba) Date: Wed, Jan 17, 2001, 12:21pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aleisha Saba) Subject: Re: THE FACE UPON THE FLOOR-Antoine D'Arcy SO WHAT ABOUT THE FACE ON THE MOON? What about the ink blotch tests - where some see angels, and others see demons? I always liked this poem......and remember this St Paul didn't he used to meet at the Three Taverns.....for in nearly every town, was a tavern? Saba The Face of the Bar Room Floor - see what a few drinks can do to a man .... THE FACE UPON THE FLOOR 'Twas a balmy summer evening, and a goodly crowd was there. Which well-nigh filled joe's barroom on the comer of the square, And as songs and witty stories came through the open door A vagabond crept slowly in and posed upon the floor. Where did it come from?" someone said: "The wind has blown it in." What does it want?" another cried. "Some whisky, rum or gin?" "Here, Toby, seek him, if your stomach's equal to the work I wouldn't touch him with a fork, he's as filthy as a Turk." This badinage the poor wretch took with stoical good grace; In fact, he smiled as though he thought he'd struck the proper place. "Come, boys, I know there's kindly hearts among so good a crowd To be in such good company would make a deacon proud. "Give me a drink-that's what I want-I'm out of funds, you know; When I had cash to treat the gang, this hand was never slow. What? You laugh as though you thought this pocket never held a sou; I once was fixed as well, my boys, as anyone of you. There, thanks; that's braced me nicely; God bless you one and all; Next time I pass this good saloon, I'll make another call. Give you a song? No, I can't do that, my singing days are past; My voice is cracked, my throat's wom out, and my lungs are going fast. "Sayl Give me another whisky, and I'll tell you what I'll do I'll tell you a funny story, and a fact, I promise, too. T'hat I was ever a decent man not one of you would think; But I was, some four or five years back. Say, give me another drink. 'Fill her up, Joe, I want to put some life into my frame- Such little drinks, to a bum like me, are miserably tame; Five fingers-there, that's the scheme-and corking whisky, too. Well, here's luck, boys; and, landlord, my best regards to you. "You've treated me pretty kindly, and I'd like to tell you how I came to be the dirty sot you see before you now. As I told you, once I was a man, with muscle, frame and health, And, but for a blunder, ought to have made considerable wealth. 'I was a painter-not one that daubed on bricks and wood But an artist, and, for my age, was rated pretty good. I worked hard at my canvas and was bidding fair to rise, For gradually I saw the star of fame before my eyes. "I made a picture, perhaps you've seen, 'tis called the 'Chase of Fame,' It brought me fifteen hundred pounds and added to my name. And then I met a woman-now comes the funny part- With eyes that petrified my brain, and sunk into my heart. 'Why don't you laugh? 'Tis funny that the vagabond you see Could ever love a woman and expect her love for me; But 'twas so, and for a month or two her smiles were freely given, And when her loving lips touched mine it carried me to heaven. ' Did you ever see a woman for whom your soul you'd give, With a form like the Milo Venus, too beautiful to live; With eyes that would beat the Koh-i-noor, and a wealth of chestnut hair? If so, 'twas she, for there never was another half so fair. "I was working on a portrait, one afternoon in May, Of a fair-haired boy, a friend of mine, who lived across the way, And Madeline admired it, and, much to my surprise, Said that she'd like to know the man that had such dreamy eyes. 'It didn't take long to know him, and before the month had flown My friend had stolen my darling, and I was left alone; And, ere a year of misery had passed above my head, The jewel I had treasured so had tarnished, and was dead. "That's why I took to drink, boys. Why, I never saw you smile, I thought you'd be amused, and laughing all the while. Why, what's the matter, friend? There's a teardrop in your eye, Come, laugh, like me; 'tis only babies and women that should cry. 'Say, boys, if you give me just another whisky, I'll be glad, And I'll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad. Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score-- You shall see the lovely Madeline upon the barroom floor.' Another drink, and with chalk in hand the vagabond began To sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man. Then, as he placed another lock upon the shapely head, With a fearful shriek, he leaped and fell across the picture-dead. ANTOINE D'ARCY Saba Note: So if you have ever been in your Local Press Club, they were never known for their temperence. Some see mud, and some see stars.......would rather see face of Jesus on a piece of toast than face of Clinton in our Oval Office another 4 years or face of Gore? Talk of the devil.........glad Baby Bush gave up drinking and saw he light.
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