Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-14
AN EPISTLE TO
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AN EPISTLE TO -.
ALEXANDRIA, MAacH 10, 1929.
DEAR Sin As yourself and the Phenix's supplied,
AT least for this toeek when you get" Why's" bride,
And sweet Phabe's" bridegroom what think you
five
po.,noue the Retirement" and Sc Tale Of the Sea-
With all minor matters and due respect pay
To the coming Sevnteenh-for you know ',is the day
of SAINT and great Saint, all the world knows;
Who was dubbd with saintshp for thrashng the foes
of Christie ndom--ranking as one ofthe Stren
Brare T" Champions :" who once form'dfar Chivalry's
leaven
England boasts her Sain! Gorge who fought hard
with dragon
For SaiyI Dapid the Welsh mount leek, or dag on
rheir sconces /; and auld Caledonia declares
For 81 qndrec folks ken that the thistle she wears.
(The andrer is mine, Brother Jonathan swears,
And guess he's wide-spread,ng Hickory Tree -
which we've stuck in the Presidents Chair, dye see
France has her Saint DenRis-and Spain her Saint
James.
And Italia Saint .7nihony, famous for flames
To punish the wicked, called anthony's fire.
But of all Europes Saints. there are none that rank
higher
Than s.rxr PArRrcx the Saint and the Patron of
Och he was the boy Had you seenhim appearing
In glory at Cork, with his green armor on,
And smother,u WIN sha .l. 49, Ha.I
But he did more at home than the brilfaniest thing
He did 'mongst the pagans abroad for he said
You lazy bog -trotters! I'll not go to bed
"'Till I've done what I'll do-for name to reform
The uhol. Island BY jingo. I'll raise such storm
Bou the ears of the rattle snakes vpers. and toads,
"That they'll soon leave waters, our fields, and
our roads
"Pil pepper their jackets, the rascas I'll make"-
Then he seized his shillsy, and off to the brake,
Where toad sat grinning. He fetchd it whack,
And it gave but groan, and lay dead its back
Saint Pat did Mt stop here but kild all its cousins,
And piled them in heaps of hundreds of dozens.
Then he ookd out for snakes-and the slippery rogues
Bothered Patrick tle-they bit thro' his brogues;
And they led him such chases, thro thcket and ger,
When he lost them he scarcely could catch them again
But Saint Patrick was janneck he wouldn't give up
Till he kipd the LAST snake. "By the powers but
I'll sup
He swore in his gee'' this large speckled sarper
a., looks like aneeL, and Pm its no rarnent."
Then he call'd all the paddles around him, to Join
In the trateand each said that "with prGtoes twas
fine !"
From that day to this. not a reptiles been seen,
For Saint Pat kid them all in his armour of green.
He outran them--surprsed them in forest and bog
And at once put end to their lives and their prog
Then huzza for Saint Patrick Huzza for the Day
When Hbernia beheld. in his proudest array,
Her Champion and Saint. up to elbows in grease,
While serving his guests at the gala of peace;
And filing up each hungry Irishman's NAV,
Who hiccup'd " SAINT Pairick! and Erin go-Jraugh"
Now since Ern's Saint ranks so goriously high,
That all others nought when 81 Patrick is nigh,
Suppose endeavor 1--WE cannot do less)
To bride the Gazeite- Alexsndria's press
With glass of rale- Irish to give us a column
ofrhyme-sen,imental. and funny, and solemn
On nert Paddy's day-which will be this day.week.
Itperhaps might occasion some bullmaking freak,
Where whiskey, shelalys, and praiOes would mingle
With shamrock so green"-a most socisble jingle
For small "ERIN's HARr' you coald speak to F. Y.
And SHAMROCK" I'D get, in print, cut and dry;
And S-ap-5ook will furnish, to make the folks risky,
A lady who beggd that S. Pat. would ''rain ohiskey!"
This would make variety-funny and solid,
Well MKT is the best for the healthy squalid.
Be thus honor'd and who cost Of bri6ing must pay
IT'S not worth quarrel-we don't want grumbler-.
lfyos'H find the tchiskey why. PH6nd--the tpn6le,!
Iremain--(I scarce thought should get to the end
Ofmy letter)-fam,
Sir, ct cetera,
f-fg YOUR FRIEND.
WILD PIDeEoNs.-We do not remember,