Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-09-19
HALBERT-o! A TALE.

II not, no doubt YOU have been told
He set al nature cap'ring BY his flute
Orpheus, I beg his pardon, ia speak true,
And give him, as would to all, his due,
.nistook the instrument, 'twas-a lutte.
well what this same lutte was under his COM
mand,
Was Searson's Tyre to him, for If he'd but ralse
his hand
He'd set the forests all so gaily dancing,
This. take nv word for il, is no romance ];
Ave. rocks, hills, and wales, would so to
prancng,
ASH dame Nature had got the Saints
fSt Virtuss) dance.
Reader to cut the matter short-he died one
day. Iclay,
His lyre, alas unstrung-hs body turned to
Orsome say dustin which he was lmmur'd;
Which, it is not essential to our subject now to
know,
Only that he actually did die some time egoi
And we at length, his equal have secured.
Our kinder stars have raised Us up another
HaiPd by the world as his poetic brother.
Albert 10!
Is his name, or, as I've the true cockney dia-
lect and spirit,
Both of which by nature inherit
Halbert--o
Par mobile fratrum--s'as we say at College
That place of all others for increasing know
ledge.
This Halbers-o,i is unquestionably ga man of
parts
By which-I mean one well vers'd in arts
OF writing poetry and fiction;
And If he fails mot likely in applause
For rhyne, he leaves Won then abundant cause
To admire his subject and his diction.--
lie is in fact the prodigy of the age,
And view'd as such by STRIPPING and by sage -
The girls, dear tender hearts, with many signs
Will, ha how sweet & wipe their pretty eyes,
I'm reading over some affecting story
Penn'd by our hero, full of darts an quivers,
Of dying lovers. brooks, & rm'ring rivers
All! Inc how envied is ms glory =
And withal so difiident and reserv'd,-For
whilst the city
Was regal'd by sonnets melting, or Jeu d'esprits
50 witty
And all alert to know this heir to fame;
He modest youth, neper would have told it,
sTwas left for Yankee guesses to unfold it
And publish to the world, Halbert-o's
name
Yes, crowds at the corners were collected,
Business, amusement, all ne elected,
Even cooks permitted dianers to be spoifd,
Meats oyer roasted, buildings over boil'd,
Their thous hts, SO bent our hero to discover,
The bard, who as said charn'd both young
and old,
And they his merits always telling never told,
This guide, this oracle ofthe lover.
As for the muses.: - one and all, they wait
his beck, her neck,
Atwhich each will scamper as tho she'd break
Aud to summon fifty instead ofnlne' he's able,
And of Pegasus those we'll known poets steeds,
He has more than as many as he needs,
In fact, ofthese he keeps - livery stable!
Halbert-o! how bountiful to thee has nature
been [seen,
For other bards of muses. few but one have
I'm fact it's only relation
Nor aids me, one of their rustic cousins.
Whilst as i've said you summon them sby dog
ems, [tion.
But stop-I must not stray from my nara
The mayor, good luck to hinD wore dark
glasses
Under which its difficult to see what passes,
But-his ewes, tits said, flashed fire of adni-
rationl
The Council, and the Council leader too,
srhose Solomons OF the age, the only true
And brilliant luminaries of the nation;
Well done! the Mayor--W Veil done! the Pre-.
sident cried, [plied,
Well done Well done, the Council all re-
Wen register him vote of apProbation.
For his ssFrasment' of which none ween
gilmore complete blank rerse has e'er been seen,
Oh it was so tragic
ttseem'd like very magic Thorrow:-
TO steal a"av our senses hem! should say
All! It was such tale
As could never fail Trowi-
To rend, cen the heart of adamant with sor.
His Father, his mothers husband we con.
clud~,
As other differences would at least be rr,de
Became the object of ruffians furvl
Halbert %, called sweet patience to his aid
And whilst he eyed the meek, the placid maid
lie thought Of seeking engeance throueh q