American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-05-17
HUMOROUS.

late london paper mentions that the celebrated Man
eim Telescope the mastery OF the famous Spaiger,
Hungarian opcian, recently destroyed in sim
uar mannerA servant of the Observatory having taken
ut the glasses to clean hen put them in again. without
observing that cat had crept into the tube. At night, the
nlmal being alarmed al the strong powers OF the Lunar
avs, endeavored to escape but the effort threw down lie
which, falling to the ground from the top of
over, was broken to pieces.
The writer of the following punning eu despr presu-
ng that the adventurous cat killed by the fall imagnes
he daughter of the astronomer breaking forth in the
blowing Lament, which he has obgingy furnished for
his evenings paper: Ne1O Fork Erening Post.
What whisker'd ghost, at this mild moonlight hour,
Invites my steps, and points to yonder tower:
IT'S Puss, my darling Puss all bleedng pale!
Gash'd are her ears, and scotch'd her lengthy tall
Oh! tell thy tale, and l will lend
Then sweep to my revenge, Grimalkin, dear
Oh say, did boys. or other cruel hounds,
Conspire thy death, and give those CHASTITY woundsf
Or, tell me Puss, 'tis what dread the most,
Did some Kilkenny cat make thee ghost
Canst thou not speak ah then I'll seek the cause;
What see here !! the bloody prints Of paws;
And oh, chaste stars! what broken limbs appear,
Here lie thy legs the Telescopes lie here.
The Telescope o'erturn'd too plain see
The cause, the cause of thy catastrophe.
Was it for this, my sire on topmost tower,
Gaz'dSat the stars till midnghts dewy hour.
Or watch'd the Bear, and saw Orion rise,
While Hesper lent her light to other skiesf
Was it for this, he gave such strict command,
To clean the glasses with a careful hand,
To see nor cat, nor kit, was nesting there;
Lest like old Sidrophel, star-gazing wight,
Who wisely made comet of kite,
My cat perhaps, twxt Mercury, and Mars,
Had hep'd to swell the catalogue of stars.
o! say what led thee to that gddy height,
Thou Queen of cats that wching time of night;
Was it cat-optrcs fr'd thy feline heart,
And didst thou dare to act the sages part,
And peeping at the moon while stretched at ease,
Discover with delight twas all green cheesei
Or didst thou wish to take near survey,
of tina, delicious stream, the milky way,
And while the dog.sar the welkin raves,
To take a leap, and lap its cream-cad wayesf
All me what terrors through thy frame spread,
When Lunas rays refracted on thy head,
And filled thy gooseberry eyes with beams so thick,
No wonder thou becamst a lunatic
Lost all reflection; scarce retain'd hope,
Immur'd in rejecting telescope.
The mirror first thy fury bore,
The convex lens but vexed thee the more:
Then all thy rage was to focus brought;
To Tilt the tube was now thy only thought;
Founce--bounce --t tumbles from the turret wall,
Breaking itself, but breaking not thy fall!
! Oh diretul fall But why indulge this woe?
| Can cat-aracts of tears avail thee now?
No; thou art bound to Hecate's wizard shore,
Where Whttngton's fam'd cat has gone before;
! And appease thy ghost my task shall be,
To consecrate cataconib to thee.
Embalm'd, dear shade, with true Egyptian care,
Across the Atlantic wave thy corpse I'll bear,
| And where cold Catskill props the western sky,
| The fr-clad relics OF my cat shall lie.
There shall thy avorite herbs and plants be found
| The cat-mint there shall shed its sweets around;
The savoury mushroom from the sod shall start,
And to the breeze its catsup sweets impart,
| While the tall cat-ail, on the reedy shore,
Shall hang his head, and thy sad fate deplore.
| One warbler of the grove will meier forget
| To pay to thee his grateful, tuneful debt;
| The cat.brd perch'd on the catalpa tree
Shall squat that note he learnt poor pss from thee,
While from the mount, the valley, and the plain,
The weeping pole-cat shall repeat the strain.