American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-10-28
EPITApH,

ESxIkAfA5
oS rHE LATE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS;
from, he original Of Grace Ranes His Ma
poet Laureate.
Beneath this marble, mud, or moss,
whlche'e r his subjects shall determine,
Entombed in euloges and dross,
The Island King is food for vermin
Preserved BY scribbers, and by salt,
From Le,he, and sepulchral yapoers.
His bod, fills his fathers vault,
His character, the daily papers.
Well was he framed for royal seat;
Kind to the meanest OF his creatures,
With tender heart, and tender feet,
And open purs-, and open features;
The ladies' say, who laid him our,
And earned thereby the usual pensions.
They never wreathed shroud shout
A corpse Of more genteel dimensions.
He warred with half score Of toes,
Aud shone, BY proxy, in the quarrel,
Enioyed hard fights, and soft repose,
And deahless debt, and deathless laurel
His enemies we're scalped and fa,ed,
Wherrer his soldiers were victorious;
And widows wept, and paupers paid,
TO make their Sovereign Ruler glorious.
i, il days were set apsrt for thanks,
And prayers were said by pous readers,
And land was lavished on the ranks,
And land was layished on their leaders.
Events are writ By iiistory's pen,
Aud causes are too much 10 care for
Fame aks about the where and when
White Folly asks the why and wherefore
In peace he uas immensely CAV,
Aud indefaigahly busy
Preparing gesgaws every day,
And sho> to make bis subjects DIZZY
And hearing the report Of guns,
And signing the reports OF gaolcrs
And making up recipes for buns,
And patterns for the army tailors,
And budin. carriages, and boats,
And streets, and chapels, and payilions
And regulating all the coats,
And all the principles OF millions
And drinking homilies and gin,
And chewing PORK and adulstion
And looking Backwards upon sin,
And looking forward 70 salvation.
The people in his happy reign,
Were blest beyond al other nations,
Cnharmed BY foreign axe chain,
unhealed BY civil innovations
They served the usual logs and stones,
With all the usual rights and terrors
And swallowed all their fathers bones.
And swallowed all their fathers errors
When fierce MOB with clubs and knives,
Declared that nothing should conten, them,
But that their representatives
Should actually represent them,
BY sending troops with drums and banners,
Cut short their speeches. and their necks,
And broke their heads, 10 mend their manners !,
And when Dissension flung her stain
Upon the Ugh, OF Hymen's altar,
And Destiny made Cunid's chain
As CALLING A. the hangman's halter,
He passed most domestic life,
By mAny misrresses befriended.
And not put away his wife,
For fear the Priests should be offended
And thus a. last he sunk 10 rest
Amid the blessings Of his people,
And signs were heAred from every breast
And bells we're tolled from every steeple
And oud was every pu5lic throhg,
H. brilliant character adjoining
And poets raised mourning song,
And clothleFs raised the price OF mourning
His funeral was very grand,
Followed ny many robes and maces.
And all the great ones OF the land,
Struggling, as here ofo7e, for places
And every loyal Minister
Was there with signs OF nurse fell sorrow
Save Pozzr, his Lord Chancellor,
Who promised 70 attend tomorrow.
Peace 10 bis Jus, his fostering care
BY grateful hearts shall long be cherished;
And all lis subjects shall declare,
They lost grinder, when he persisted.
They who shall look upon The lead,
II which peoples love hs.h shriaed him
sha say. whcn al the worst is said,
Perhaps he leaves worse behind him
n the Sandwich Islands. % greater MARI OF resnee
PAD - the Parent b. the son, than The ssalouinf