No Facts Wanted

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>No Facts Wanted</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I watch the great steamers departing</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For Sarawak, Rio, and Rome,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But I'll never be on a ship oversea,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I've got to stick 'round here at home.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'll never see Bangkok or Shanghai,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Calcutta, Bombay, or Lahore;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And though I may dream of their temples agleam,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It's only a dream--nothing more.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>My spirit may roam with the rovers;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>My flesh has to tread in the mill.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'm hitched to a house and my kids and my spouse,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And roving is not on the bill.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Though mine is the heart of Ulysses,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I cannot embark on this trail;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>My eyes follow ships as they steam from their slips,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But that is as far as I sail.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Yet, maybe my dreams are the better</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Because they can never come true,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For Ports of Cathay might prove dingy and gray,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And Samarkand's gardens be few;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But now they are misted with wonder,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Their glory untarnished and pure;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Facts, leaden and tragic, can't shatter their magic,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>My stay-at-home's dreams shall endure!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="popular_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Popular Magazine"><U><I>The Popular Magazine</I></U></A><I> - </I><I>October 10, 1928</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>