Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-09-06


Hairy faced Dick hath a swarthy hue,
Between a gingerbread nut and a Jew,
Aud his pigtail is long, and bus by and thick.
Like a pump handle stuck on the end Of stick.
Hairy faced Dick understands his trade,
tie stands by the breech of the long carronade,
The linstock giows in his bony hand,
Waiting that grim old shippers command.
The bullets are fying-huzza, huzzai
The bullets are fying-away away
The brawUy boarders mount by the chains,
Aud are over their buckles in blood and brains:
On the foeman's deck, where a man shond be,
Young Hamilton Tighe
Waves his cutlass nigh,
And Capfiair1e CrQpGud bends low at his knee.
Hairy faced Dick with Iinsocls in hand,
Is waiting that grim looking shippers command:
wink comes sly
From that sinister eye
Hairy-faced Dick at once lets fly.
And knocks of the head ofy Dung Hamilton Tighei
There's a lady sits lonely in bower anil hall,
Ana her pages aod handnatdrns come at her cali,
" NOW naste We my handnaidrns, haste aud sec,
How he sits there ard giowers With his head Gu
hls knse!'
The maidens smile, and. her thots 10 destroy,
They bring her a liItlc pale meatY faced hos
Aud the nealy faced boy say. . Mother dear,
Now HamIlton's dead, I've Thousand a Sc ar
The lady has donned her mantle and hood,
She is bound for >hrlit at St Mary's Rood
"Oh, the taper shan burn, aud the bell sail toll,
And he mass shah be said ior n,s step sou soul,
Aad the table fair shalt b. hu.e up on high,
Crate pro dnilia I0iailt0n Iighe -
Her coach ana four
Draws up 10 the door,
With her groom, aud her Iooiman, and half
score more,
The lady steps into her coach alone,
Ard they hear her sigh. aud th> hear her groaD,
They close the door, and they turn the pin,
But there's rid with her no never slept in!
And ali the way there aud all the way back,
The harness strains aud the coach springs crack.
The horses strain. and snort, and kick,
Till the coachman III INKS he is driving old Nick
And the grooms and the footmen wuuder ANA say,
" What makes the old coach so heavy TO day 7"
But the mealy faced boy peeps in and sees
A man sitting there with his head on his knees.
IT'S ever the same. in hall or in bower,
Wherever the place, whatever the hour,
That lady mutters and talks in the air,
And her eye is fixed on the empty chair;
But the mealy faced boy still whispers with
dread
She talks to man with never head 20
There's yellow old admiral living at Bath,
As gray as badger and thin a lath;
And his very queer eyes have such very queer
lters,
They seem 10 be try ing TO peep at his cars
That old yellow admiral goes TO the rooms,
And he plays long whist, hut he frets and fumes,
For all his knaves stand upside down,
Aud the Jack of Clubs does nothing but frown;
And The kings and the and all the best trumps
Get into the hands Of the other old frumps
While close TO his partner a man he sees,
Counting his tricks with his head on his knees.
In Radcliffe highway there's an ole marine
store.
And great black doll hangs on, at the door;
There rusty locks, and dusty bags.
And musiy phlas, and iusty rags,
And lusty old woman, called Thirsty Nan,
And her crusty old husbands hairy faced man.
That hairy faced man is sallow and wan,
And his great thick pigtaiI is withered and gone
Aud he cries Z" take aw ay that lubberly chap
That sits there aud grns with his head in his lsp''
Aud the neigbbors say as they him look sick,
" What a rum old coyey is Hairy faced Dick !"
The admiral. lady, and hairy faced man,
May say what they please, and do hat they can,
hut one thing seems remarkably clear
They may die TO morrow, or live till next year
Bat wherever they live, or whenever they die,
They'll never get quit Of young Hamilton Tighe!