American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-12-11
From The Nesv JNoathiy .Maga-ine, for September
LONDON LYRICS
OWEN OF LANARK.

Sable Jews and 1axen Quakers
Initiate no move the shark
Wealth lies planted ont in
Welcome, Owen Of Larark!
Patalleograms of Virtue,
Ilaunts from human frailty free,
Squares that Vice ne'er do hurt to-,
Circles of New Harmony;
Schemes that blossom while view 'em,
Swamp and praiie changed TO park;
Nlenm melting into tuim-
WondTous Oven Of Lanark!
All Nea-York, in mind and body,
Feels thy influence and atores;
Btics, sangarcc, and todly
Fly her fifteen hundred stores.
Big Ohio now looks bigger,
Freedom fans the kindred spark
Boss no longer scuws on Niger
Welcome, Owen of Lanark
Lazarus lies down with Dives,
Rich and Poor no more seen;
Baltimore one common hive is
BAsy bees, and hon then Queen.
Uncle Ben lays doan his rife,
While his Nephew-prone to bark
Thanks his stars for . that ere trthe,,
Mighty Owen OF Lanaik
Failing schemers. retrogralers
Lawyers fa'tening rife,
Grim back woodsmen, bankr"p, traders,
Squalters brandishing the knife
Busy banks their cents up summing;
Many master, many clerk,
Diop their dollars at thy coming,
Mighty Owen Of Lanark
Foe to titled srs and madans,
ptofe laws bunders to cdress,
Washington nor Quincy Adams
Ever Inv like, guess.
Let Joh Bulls polluted pages
Dub thee staring, dub thee stalks
Scion Of succeeding ages
Welcome, Owen of Lanark.
Vast, calculate thy plan is,
Born to soar where others creep;
Lefty as the Alleghanies,
AS the Mississippi deep.
As the German brothers mnglf,
Prone to sing q bark follow bark.
All States through dell and d;ng,e,
Hail thee, Owen OF Lanark
Give an item" boss ant, peasant
Feel quite mighty where you stray;
Competence is omnpresent,
Poverty +" slick right away
See our bpeds, like all nature,'
Climbing up thy friendly ark,
Dub thee Sovereign Legislator,
Welcome Owen OF Lanark.
AS the writer Of the foregoing lines has not exhausted
he simple rhymes to Lanark, we have taken the liberty
inEng few more changes with those which lie has lief
49, in the shape of valedcory the philosopher of cir
umstances-JN York Commercial Advertiser.
Thus in Cockney rhymes salued,
On thy passage DER the main,
'i'woud be hard il all uabgnised
Thou shoud'st struggle back again!
Fare thee well may kindly bree2es
Swell the canvass of thy barque
BE the weather such peases--
Mister Owen OF Lanark
'1is a circumstance the weather,
Circumstances are plague,
Else we all should hang together,
Strung like onions on a pes.
Those COMPOUNDED circumstances
Bother us, you remark, .
Hence at sea thy person dances,
Wandering owen OF Lanark
60! you will find lots of paupers,
Where YOU come from, help that need;
They will take thy kicks with coppers,
They will praise thee for their feed-
am sorry that the Yankees
Are so sadly in the dark,
And wont work for jaw. and thankees
Gracious Owen Of Lanalk.
Calculating, pedling devils.
Who for wives and children yearn,
Who the social contracts evils
Are TOO ignorant 10 learn!
They believe, BESIDES III ciipture.
Looking there when sorrows eark
IT'S his circumstance has lrpt your
Heels up, Owen Of Lanark
Go! we do not think you're wanted
Here at preseni--but do not
By these circumstances daunted,
Let your system go TO pot.
Where You came from there are many
Naked or in cutie sarl,'
Who y i'll caper blythe as any,
Cluthed by Owen OF Lanark
He perhaps who wrote the ditty,
Seemingly merry lad,
Welcoming thee to city,
OF .trite' may be glad;
Then do something Yankee clever
For him, and like any lark,
lie will chaunt thy glory ever,
Bounteous Owen OF Lanatk!
seJaw is classical Sir Walter Scott writes il slack
aw' in the Pirate.
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He who requires friends without faults, will be
without friends.