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    'Millennium' from Saturday Evening Post magazine (May 22, 1926)

    1926

  1. Saturday Evening Post (May 22, 1926)   "Millennium" Click here to see a picture of this item.A poem. p 175.  [HARPER]

from Saturday Evening Post
Millennium
by Ellis Parker Butler

The great millennium is at hand.
Redder apples grow on the tree.
A saxophone is in ev'ry band.
Brandy no longer taints our tea.
Dimples smile in the red-rouged knee.
The dowagers are no longer fat.
Radio now makes safe the sea --
And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.

Even our sauerkraut now is canned.
Verse is a dangsight more than free.
A "highboy" now is the old dish stand.
Ev'ry flapper has her night key.
Chopin is jazzed into melody.
A child is a "kiddie" and not a "brat."
Bosses and miners at last agree --
And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.

All firewaters are bravely banned.
There is a ballot for every she.
The hairpin now is a contraband.
A New York mayor gets some sympathy.
My dealer brings some coal to me.
The plumber is an aristocrat.
In Miami all millionaires may be --
And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.

Son, the millennium is at hand!
What though Armenians be mashed flat?
The world is getting just perfectly grand,
For the Turk has bought him a derby hat.




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