The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-10-04
From the Ne,c Monthly Magazine for August.
GOOD NIGHT TO THE SEASON.

Thus runs the ucrLd aray.-HAMLET.
Goodnight to the Season! tits over!
Gay dwellings no longer are gay;
The Courier, the gambler, the lover,
Are scatter'd like swallows, away:
There's nobody left to invite one,
Except my good uncle and spouse;
My mistress is bathing at Brig hton,
Ny patron is sailing at Cowes:
For want of a better employment,
Till Ponto and Don can get out,
I'll cultivate rural enjoyment
And angle immensely for trout.
Goodnight to the season the Hobbies,
Their changes and rumours of change,
Which startled the rustic Sir Boobies,
And made all the Bishops look strange:
The breaches, aud battles, and bIunders,
Pertorm'd by the Commons and Peers;
The Marquis's eloquent thunders,
The Baronet's eloquent ears:
Denouncings of Papists and treasons,
OF foreign dominion and oats;
Misrepresentation of reasons,
And misrepresentation of notes.
Goodnight to the Season the buildings
Enough to make lingo SICK
The paintings, and pIasterings, and gdngs,
OF stucco, and marble, and brick;
The orders delicieusly blended,
From love of effect, into one;
The club-houses only intended,
The palaces only begun;
The hell where the fend in his glory,
Sits staring at putty and stones,
And scrambeS from story to story,
To rattle at midnight his bones.
Goodnight to the Season the dances,
The filings of hot little rooms,
The gIanc!ngs OF rapturous Chances,
The fancylugs of fancy costumes;
The pleasures which Fashion makes duties,
The praises of fiddles and flutes,
The luxury of looking at beauties,
The tedium of'tsiking to mutes;
The female diplomatsts, planners
= OF matches for Laura and Jane,
The ice of her dyships manners,
The ice of his L!ordships champagne.
Goodnight to the Season!-the RACES
Led of by the chiefs Of the throng,
The Lady Matda's new pages,
TIE Lady Eiiza's new song:
Miss Fenneis Macaw, which at BuoIl~se
Is held to have something to say;
Mrs. Splenetc's musical Poodes,
Which bark I" BATH, BATH ~ all day;
The pony Sir Araby sported,
AS hot and as black coal,
And the Lion his mother imported,
In bearskins and grease, from the Pole.
Goodnight to the Season the Toso,
So very ma este and tall;
Miss Ayton, whose singing was so so,
And Pasta, divinest of all;
The labour in vain of the Ballet,
So sadly deficient in stars:
The foreigners thronging the Alley,
Exhang the breath Of cigars;
The "ioge," where some heiress, how killing
Environ'd with exquisite sits,
The lovely one out of her drilling,
The silly ones out Of their wits.
Goodnight to the Season the splendour
That beam'd in the Spanish Bazaar;
Where pnrchased-rny heart was so tender
A card-case,-a pasteboard GUITAR
A bottle of perfume,-a grdle,-
A lithograph'd Riego full-grown,
Whom Bigotry drew on hurdle,
That artists might draw him on stone,-
A small panorama of Seville
A trap for demolishing fies,-
A caricature Of the Devil
And a look from Miss Sheridan's eyes.
Goodnight to the Season!-the flowers
Ofthe grand horticultural fete,
When boudoirs were quilted for bowers,
And the fashion was not to be late;
When all who had money and leisure
Grew rural DER ices and wines,
All pleasantly toiIing for pleasure,
All hungrily pining for pines,
And making of beautiful speeches,
And marring OF beautful shows,
And feeding on delicate peaches,
And trcadIng on delicate toes.
Goodnight to the Season! -another
Will come with its trhes and toys,
And hurry away, like its brother.
In sunshine, and odour, and noise.
Will it come with rose or brlar!
VIII it come with blessing or curse
~IV;Il ito hounets he lower or higher
Will its morals be better or worse!
Will it find me grown thinner or latter,
Or ionder of wrong or OF right,
Or married, or buried mo matter,
Goodnight 10 the Season, Goodnight!
Aurora boreolis.-A writsFin the Lond'
Iechanics' Journal, has published new tn
nv of the aurora borealis, which has so lo1
uzzled philosophers. After speaking of 4
bsurdity of the exploded or absurd theori
{ preceding writers, he refers to the obst
atoms Of Mr. Fisher upon the subject, vi
ccompanied Captain Parry to the arctic
ions and it is the work of MIR F. that
, indebted for the suggestion of this attem
t an hypothesis. In his accurate accou
f the various halOes, arcs, paraselene, 8
which he saw in the dreary regions he visit
,e tells us that he always observed. duri
heir appearance, floating particles of ice,
he atmosphere which was also the c;
yhen the sun first appeared after its long q
,cence. which was visible, by refraction, thu
laws before it rose above the horison. No
the great refractIng power of
,er. either in its fluid or CONCEALED state, a
Inc orismatic forms Of its crystals, thus ev
ced in an immense degree in the formati
IF these meteoric appearances, and at
same time knowing the exhaling power
the sun, aided by the evaporation occasion
by volcanic fires, which can raise vapor to