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| Keywords: Schurz and Trumbull as Richard III and Gloucester.png en U S Senators Schurz and Trumbull as Gloucester and Buckingham play Act III Scene VII from Shakespeare's play Richard III Harper's Weekly May 4 1872 p 345 Creator Thomas Nast 1872-05-04 Caption <table><tr valign top > <td> C S How now how now what say the citizens <br> Trumbull The citizens are mum say not a word <br> I laid open all your victories <br> Your discipline in war wisdom in peace <br> Your bounty virtue fair humility <br> And when my oratory grew to an end <br> I bade them that did love their country's good <br> Cry Hurra for Schurz<br> They spake not a word; </td> <td> <td> But like dumb statues or breathless stones <br> Star'd on each other and look'd deadly pale <br> When I had done some followers of mine own <br> At lower end o' the hall hurl'd up their caps <br> And some ten voices cried Hurra for Schurz <br> And thus I took the vantage of those few <br> Thanks gentle citizens and friends quoth I;<br> This general applause and cheerful shout <br> Argues your wisdom and your love to Carl <br> And even here brake off and came away <br> Richard III Act III Scene VII </td> </tr></table> PD-old-100 Caricatures of Carl Schurz Thomas Nast Lyman Trumbull 1872 cartoons 1870s political cartoons of the United States | ||||
