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| Keywords: Grant asks Schurz to play on a Flute.jpg en With a caption taken from Shakespeare's play Hamlet U S President Ulysses S Grant seated in his throne asks a skeptical Senator Carl Schurz with a concerned Senator Thomas W Tipton standing beside him to play on a flute which he proffers Harper's Weekly April 27 1872 p 321 Creator Thomas Nast 1872-04-27 Caption <span style font-size 120 > NOT SO EASILY PLAYED UPON </span> <table><tr valign top > <td width 49 > ��U S G Will you play upon this pipe <br> ��C S My lord I can not <br> ��U S G 'Tis as easy as lying </i> govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb give it breath with your mouth and it will discourse most eloquent music Look you these are the stops <br> ��C S But these can not I command to any utterance of harmony; I have not the skill <br> </td><td width 2 ></td><td width 49 > ��U S G Why look you now how unworthy a thing you make of me You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass and there is much music excellent voice in this little organ; yet can not you make it speak Why do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe Call me what instrument you will though you can fret me you can not play upon me Hamlet Act III Scene II </td></tr></table> PD-old-100 Caricatures of Carl Schurz Thomas Nast Thomas W Tipton Caricatures of Ulysses S Grant 1872 cartoons 1870s political cartoons of the United States Hamlet Act III Scene II | ||||
