Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-02-24
POETRY


Would make me nd ail HotnenAhu
Such unkIna women row!
Tpey reed not. sure, as distant be.
AS Java or Japan
Vet ev'ry miss re a,idds me this--
I'm not snglc mani
Once they made chsice Of my bass vsiee
10 share in each duet;
SO well | danced, 1 ssnehsw CHANGED
To stand IN every act
They now declare Cannot slng,
And dance on Bruins plan;
Ms draw!.- me paIDu- me any thing
I'm no, sing eman!
Once was asked advice and taskd
What works to buy or not,
Add would read that passase out
1 Sc admired in Scott''
They then could bear to hear one read;
Buff lnow began.
How they would snub "my pretty page
I'm not single mani
One used to stics collar them
Another hemmed a frilI;
I bad more purses nettod then
Than could hope to fill.
L osee could get button on,
But now ! never cas-
Div buttons then were bacbelor's--
I'm not single mani
Oh hsw they hated politics
Thrust on mo by papa:
But now my chat they all leave thss
10 entertain mamma.
Mamma, who praises her own selfs
Instead Of Jane or Ann,
And lays her girls upon the shelf
I'm not single mani
All rae, how strange it is the change.
In pArlour and ~ hall.
They treat me SO, il but 80
To make morning call.
If they had hair in papers oncs.
Bolt up the stairs they rsD:
They new sit std in dishablile--
I'm not single mani
Miss Mary Bend was once 60 fsad
OF Romans and 81 Greeks,
She daily sossht my cabinet
To study my antiques
We'll, now she doe,n care dump
Fog ancient pot or pau;
kier taste at once IL nasderHized--
I'm not single mspl
Ny spouse is fond Of homsy life.
And all that sort OF thing;
I 60 to balls without my wifs.
Aad never wear ring:
And yet each Miss to when come
As strange as Genghis Khan.
Knows by some ssn, cant disine..--
I'm net single man!
60 where will, 1 but intrude,
I'm loft ia crowded rooms,
Like Zimmerman on Solitude.
Or Hervy at his Tombs
From head to heel, they make nae feel,
OF quite another clan;
Compelled to own. though left alone.
Im net q single man!
Miss Towse the toast. tho she can boast
A nsse Of Roman line.
Will turn up even that in scors
or compliments OF mine:
She should have seen that have hcsa
Her sex's partisan,
And really married all could
I'm not a single man,
fTis hard to sec how other, fare.
Whilst | rejected stand.-
Will no one take my arm because
They cannot have my hand?
bliss Parry, that for some would 20
A trip to Hindsstsn.
With me don't care to mount a stair---
I'm not single mani
Some change. ofcourss should be in fierce,
But, surely, not so much
There may be bands may set squeeze,
But must never toueaP--
Must forbear to hand chair,
And not pick up d fam
But have bsen myself picked up
I'm not single man!
Others may bint lady's tint
Is pures red and white
May say her ryes are ike the skies.
80 very blue and BRIGHT
] must not say that she has syss.
Or if SO began.
I have my fears about my sars,--
TIA Aot a single mani
I must confess did net ssess
A simple marriagsvsw
Would make me find all womenkind
Such III kind wonen now
might bs dashed TO death, or SMASHED
BY Mr.. Pickford's vaa,
Without, fear, a single tear
I'm not a single man!
ksssa~A-
WOMAN-PRo AND Cox.
Pro.--There is a world where no storms
1trude a haven of safetv apainat the tenn