SONNET WROTE WHILST THINKIN’ WHAT I WOULDST DO WITH CARNEGIE'S GOLD

By Nixon Waterman

O Great Carnegie! With thy wealth, oh, my!

I dost not know exactly what I'd do,

But seem'st to me I'd have more fun than you

Art havin’ with it. Anyhow, if I

Hadst money, as they say, “to burn,” I'd try

To burn it here, for, oh!‘ twouldst make me blue

To think I'd have to smell it burnin’ through

The endless eons of the by and by!

And you can bet if I hadst gold in bins

As thou hast got, in quantities so vast

Thou canst not spend it, I'd buy diamond pins

And soda water to the very last!

And I'd be sorry that I wast not twins

So I couldst spend my fortune twice as fast.