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Title: A Change Of Ambition Author: John Kendrick Bangs [More Titles by Bangs] HORATIUS at the bridge, and he Great Samson and his potent bone Small David with his wondrous aim J. Cæsar in his Gallic scraps Sweet William, called the Conqueror, King Hal the Fifth, who nobly fought Old Bonaparte, and Washington, Decatur, Nelson, Fighting Joe, A thousand other heroes I Can take their laurels from my door, The truth will out; it can’t be hid; In that far distant Spanish sea, The grammar’s bad, but, O my son, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |