Huddersfield Chronicle (11/Feb/1893) - "Yahoo"
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"Yahoo"
- If there be word of gross import.
- Throughout this wide, wide earth,
- If there be word that concentrates
- All that has vilest birth,
- If there be term on sea or land
- That e’er was brought to view,
- E’en ‘mongst the lost who’re “dead and —”
- It is the word “Yahoo.”
- Yet still this purist who has lost
- The Liberals a seat,
- Does on our “memory commit
- An outrage” so replete,
- With dire, dead, sickening, scorching hate,
- To me, sir, and to you,
- By mouthing in “fatuity”
- The shameless word “Yahoo.”
- He charges us with “shameless lies,”
- With full, complete “disgrace,”
- And still smiles like the cut-throat fiend,
- Who stabs when in embrace;
- And as his victim gasping falls
- With awful wound pierced through,
- He yells with fiendish gloating voice,
- “You gross, you base ‘Yahoo.’”
- Still he uplifts his eyes to heaven.
- And calls out “I’ve clean hands,”
- And says our Knight’s “but a mollusk”
- And brainless votes commands;
- Yet when the best men in our town
- Rejoice before his view,
- He slinks with tail between his legs
- And yells out vile “Yahoo.”
- No man e’er lost so great a fight
- Who hurled out such a word
- To noble foe, to upright man;
- No term so vile, absurd,
- As he has in his grim despair
- Ascribed, dear sir, to you,
- And none will to his dying day,
- As he, deserve “Yahoo.”
CID.