Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-17
Original Poetry.
AlR. SNoWnEN,

this late day, it's worthy place in your
paper, is submitted 10 you.
JONATHAN refussli 10 bend the knee TO a
dagon of Clay, and tslleth a" hnpude''i
story.
"Wihin all brick-dust,
"And without all brass"
And so, Sir Harry, il would seem that you,
ApIyour "half-horse, half-allig1tor" crew,
Like dogs with sauce-pans fasten'd to
their tails, fire,
Are yelping, chatting round, red hot with
Because, fOrsooth, your highness can't as
pire
In MIR. Moaroe's equi- balance scales.
Pray, sir, your claims What have you
done So great,
That YOU should be prime minister OF state I!
IT'S q high station, man!-When you get
there.
You lean upon the presidential! chair
A man at cards may play decent game
May be stentor on stump;-nay more,
Nav love social glass, nor blush 10 name
His fond attachment to a WI crw-re--
May cen have been minister at Client,
And still not answer Tor president.
WHY is the pop-gun ofthy eloquence.
So often fr'd in southern patriots cause
Dost hope TO rise, by popular applause,
Above the shoulders ofpoor common sense (?
This may be yours ; but, sir, | fear your
name [f5me.
Would crack the brazen trump of honest
In spite of tears, which flow for sailors
rights" nation !;
To grease the creaking wheels Of decla-
In spite of Drawing days, caronsing nights,
Each one, you know, must I'LL his proper
station.
Did you eer mark an insect on spire,
How still il dwiniled, as il mounted higher!
Pc careful how you cline on honor's s;eep'e,
Ii you would not disgust the sovereign
people." lcross,
Take warning, sir. ere fate thy purpose
And foes exclaim ''Procumbt hum los.
Your likeness, rob'd in presidential glory,
Perhaps, may best be portrayal by story.
THE PIG IN THE PARLoUR.
In city, far from this, kept clean and sweet,
As the proud city OF the land OF Dogs,
Be- four-legg'd scayengers in every street,
Cai'd hogs,
That fatten on the filth they find, and then
With pork nutritious iatten aldermen -
in that great city, what we always meet,
As roam'd lusty hog, one day,
Roofing and gruLting through its proudest
YcleD'd Br0alipdU: street,
A door wide open net his swinsh eye;
And turning up his nose that way, well,
well, lver sty,-
Thought be, that house would make Gle
III lust walk in the premises 10 spy:
So in be went, nor stop'd to ring the bell.
As in the wide saloon nc look'd about,
And on tn embroidered carpet rubb'd his
snuut,
lie marveifd much at every thing he saw,
But gIun,ed curses on such yill'nous straw.
Allur'd by victuals' sayory scent,
First 10 the dining room he went, STOOD:
Where steaming, smoking, the full tables
These, with their dishes, gravIes, drinks
and food,
By one bold push he tumbled over:
Indeed, thought he, tits decent clover
There never could be finer prog
To glut the stomach OF hog.
When he had gorg'd his craving appetite,
He left the hall.ol food, in sorry plight,
And throus the parlour, drawing room,
and all
The rich apartments be began TO hunt,
With many needless, philosophic grunt,
And rubb'd himself against the pictur'd
wall.
And every thing he met was rooted GER
Pianoes, pictures, fower-pots, vases,
LARS, tables, de-boards, books, urns,
glasses
All, all were thrown in ruins on the Aoor,-
Demolished in his eager haste,
To crafty his swiniSh taste. The
Till tir'd with making new arrangements,
Stretch his foul sides upon soft setlee.
While he lay snoring there, misunderstood,
Miss abigail, the maid, came in and found
What havoc ne had made;-and below d
cut
Lord-a-mercy!-what is this!-O dear!
What topsy-turvy doinss have we here
What mischief you have done with your
long snout =
q No doubt, vile hog, to you lis vastly fine,
On victuals cooG'd for gentlemen TO dine,
And to lie wheeling on our new settee:
No doubt, Sou think this mighty pretty
sport
But folks live here Of quite another sort,
Who will moi feel much grac'd to live
with thee!'
JONATHAN.
The Post Master General has conferred
on Mr. Phineas. Bradley, Tor many years