Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-11
SELECTED POETRY.
Specimen Of Hoods Comic .qnnuoi for 1881

cci1rleR OF H0odS comic .7apu0 J0r 1913
I'm NOT A SINGLE NAN.
Double. single, and the rus "-HoILE.
"This, this i, solitude "-BYRoS.
Well, I confess, did not guess
A simple marriage vow
Would make me find al. wonenkind
Such unkind women now!
They need not, sure, as distant De
As Java or Japan;
Yet every Miss reminds me this,
i'm not sing &c man!
Once they made choice of my base voice
To share in each duet;
So we'll I danced, . somehow CHANGED
To be IN every set:
They now declare cannot sing,
And dance On Bruin's plan;
BE draw! me paint! me any thing
I'm not single man.
Once I WAS asked advice, and tssk'd
What works 10 buy or not
And would read that Passage out
80 admired in Scott?"
They then could bear TO hear one read;
hut IL I now began,
How they would smut, "my pretty page"
I'm not single man!
One used 20 stitch collar then,
Another hemr1ed fril':
had more purses Melted then
Thsn could hope to fill
once coull get button OH,
But now l never can:
Nv buttons then were bachelo;'s-
I'm not single naE!
oh! how they hated politics
= Thrust on me by papa
But now my chst-they all leave TIA!
To entertain Mamma.
Mamma, who Praises her own self,
Instead of Jane or Ann,
And lays "her girls" upon the shelf
I'm not a single man!
All me. how strange it is, the change.
In parlour aud IN hall.
They treat ne so, 1t but go
To make morning Gail,
If they had hair in papers once,
Bolt up the stairs they ran;
They now sit still ia dishabiiie-
In not single man.
Miss Mary Bond was once SO fond
of Romans and of Greeks,
She daily sought my cabinet,
To study my antiques.
Well, now she doesn't care dump
For ancient pot or psni
Her taste at once Is modcrzed-
I'm not y single man.
NV spouse is fond of homely life,
Aud all that sort of thing:
] go 10 balls without my wife,
And never wear q ring:
And yet each Miss to " HON | come,
AS strange rs Genhis Khan,
Knows by some sign can't divine,
I'm not single nah!
Go where win, bu, intrude,
Pm left in crowded rooms,
Like Zimmerman on Solitude,
Or Hervey at his Tombs.
From head to heel, they make me feel
Otquite smother clan;
Compelled to own, though left alone,
rmnot single man!
Miss Towne the toast, though she can boast
nose Of Roman line,
Will turn up even that in scorn
OF compliments OF mine;
She should have seen that have been
tier sex's partisan,
And really MARI "a all could
I'm not single man!
IT'S hard to see how others fare,
Whilst rejected stand
Will no one take my srm, because
They cannot have my handl
Miss Parry, that for some would 60
trip to Hindostsn,
With NE don't care to mount stair
I'm no, single man!
Some change. of course shou!d he in Corce
But, surely, not so much
There may be hands may not squeeze.
But must never touchi
Must forbesr to hand chair,
And not pick up fan!
SUIT have been myself picked up
I'm not a single man,
Others may hint lady tint
Is pures, red and white
May say her eyes are like the skies.
So very blue and bright:
i must not say that she has eyes,
Or if so began,
have my fears about my ears
I'm not single man.
Unjust confess, did not guess
A simple marriage vow
Would make me find all womenkind
Such unkind women Dow;-
might be hssh'd to death, or smash'd
BY Mr. Pickford's van,
without, fear, q single tear
I'm not a single man.
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e publish below an extract of an article from
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