Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-29

TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS,
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Daily Paper, Country Paper, 5 per annun
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 90, 1929,
ORIGINAL POETRY.
Ma EpIroR-I send you An attempt at an IMITATION
ofthe syle of Don Juan Please give it place, and
ob,ge "rHE LAST OF THE" SaUEEBos.
There's pleasure in beholding natures charms,
Cspsrisone in their greenest hvtryi
When Morning see ms to we just then left the arms
OF Nght-,o some very hard delivery
There is charm in oysters and champagne,
But MANY N call my taste epicuresn-
What Others think tho never gives me pain,
For seldom cynics and g"urmsnds agree, man,
Courmand is wrong; for tho IN merry vein,
loft indulge, and love full and free cam.
Yet none can say that e'er muddy felt,
Or more than nins OF por, took under belt
There is a charm in reading Flaccus Horace,
Although rot proper all his works TO study;
There was a charm to hear Signors STORAGE
Tho now her fame is getting somewhat muddyi
There is a charm TO kiss rosy face,
And pinch cheek most ruSlicaiiy ruddy;
But still there is greater charm than all.
7 he only Iiure one man has since the fsu.
w.
,ris not In Haunting scenes of mimic wo,
Tha, now are whimpered on the ribald stage;
Nor hearing sermons that arc Just so so,
Or good aunt Susan lash this vicious ages
Nor vet in jsunts of pleasure on the water,
With music bad and dancing ten times worse,
Where this ones wife or that ones ugly daughter,
Thro' pure compliance, levies on your purse,
In ices, ieihes, nick-nacks, lemonade,
What might some honest BRIDESMAIDS bill have paid
'ris not in scenes ofroyalty and pOmp;
'ris not in Puneh's mimicry and jest;
'ris not with pretty girls alone to romp.
Nor drinking soda--Ht pburn's very besti
Tho must love glass sometimes
OF stuff that sparkles 3 sea OF pearl,
Making my nose TO Jingle like my rhymes
And then it doth my Fsncys wing unfurl,
Ascends me in the brain'-and makes each desert
scene
In this worlds wilderness. a spot ofgreen.
VI
love sometimes to among the woods,
and muse upon the many ills OF lite,
Enjoying thought in those deep soltudes
That are for with thousand beauties rife;
] love likewise the ball room and the play
To Art among the human butterflies,
And swear some silly prattler Is tay,
Cr that two diamonds are her languid ewes;
While witching sy lphs by dozens round me futter-
Lord how these girls do smell OF bread and butieT'
VII.
Twas said by Byron go, at least for
Would not sfIront lady for the world,
Unless she made some slip when was by,
Having her hair most negdgenty curled;
n do so love these women not particular.
Iookinv one y ay as tho'---atraid OF mem
\ say unless her tongucshould make mss,
i then perhaps might-what'-why, take kiss.
VIII.
Nor is this charm sneak of in the foam
Of home made beer or hicbcrts best brown stout
Nor in the fun fellow sees At home,
when maid and mistress both are on the pouti
1t is not either in the pen or paste,
As you, no doubt dear Editor, must knows
Nor when, near three, one is in grevous haste
To reach the Bank, aud just then stumPs hrs toei
tits not found in making prayers or curses,
Nor do now possess it-making verses.
Cesar possessed Il not--nor do great men,
When they propose to lay heavy tax on
Some poor mans comfort, for their own pure gan-
i'n bet dollar, too, that General Jackson
Has no, id iota in his breast,
Although he sits so high aud talks 50 big;
Nor has the dandy, deck'd in SUNDAY BEST
who struts along apure--conceitedprigi-
But must tell you, else you viii not ind
Il out in twenty yesrs-'Ts PEACE MIND.
Alexandria September, 1929.
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AN INTERESTING CREw.-The brig Clio,
which sailed from Boston for Quebec on Wed>
nesday last. was purchased and is owned by
Sir Lsaec Coffin and has on board i,reniy one boys
all Of the blood Of " old Tris,ram Coffin, %
who emIgrated from Devonshire, England in
l649, aud settled in Nantucket in 1860, hay.
ing in company with Peter Folger. d.. Frank.
Er's grandfather frs, Undue ed the natives TO