File:"The Optimist", by Edmund Vance Cooke.jpg

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English: a bearded man holds his pipe in one hand and the newspaper in another, indicating that he has been reading depressing news stories. To his left is the text of The Optimist, a poem by Edmund Vance Cooke.

The Optimist

Wish somethin' cheerful would happen,
More in accord 'it my views;
Nothin' but shootin' 'n' scrappin'
Runnin' through all of the news.

"Russians blowed up! Awful slaughter!!"
"Tibetans filled full of lead!"
"Moro blood flowin' like water!"
"Hereros a-dyin' 'n' dead."

On our own boats blood a-spillin',
Might say 'most here at our door;
Practicin' how to do killin',
Killin' ourselves by the score!

Ev'ry so often a lynchin';
Shootin' men into a sieve;
Out in Col'roddy they're pinchin'
Men just for darin' to live.

Love 'n' law not to be trusted;
Nothin' but powder 'n' ball;
Makes a man sort of disgusted
That he's a human at all.

I ain't no pessimist, nuther,
Not by a -- heavenly sight!
Got to keep "lovin' my brother";
Mebbe we'll come out all right.
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Source http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-05-05/ed-1/seq-3/ (The Tacoma Times)
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Edmund Vance Cooke  (1866–1932)  wikidata:Q16050538 s:en:Author:Edmund Vance Cooke q:en:Edmund Vance Cooke
 
Edmund Vance Cooke
Description poet
Date of birth/death 5 June 1866 Edit this at Wikidata 18 December 1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Port Dover Cleveland
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creator QS:P170,Q16050538
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Edward Samuel Goodnow  (1874–1949)  wikidata:Q19878338
 
Alternative names
Edward S. Goodnow
Description cartoonist
Date of birth/death 6 October 1874 Edit this at Wikidata 3 January 1949 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q19878338

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