State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-10-16

Bending his bod, to and fro.
With eye ny. hx'd on something below:
S'raining his throat with q whpezing somd
AS he loeks down upon the gruund;--
Like an enemy's ghast in merry mned.
Boeng OF things thai boele no good
There he sits on the blasted tree.
The dark old fowl, what meane,h he7
He means to dine most daintily.
Fer STOPPING from the dead o K tree.
with kmbo'd wings, he dances around
he carcass he sought upon the ground.
See how he tears the insensatt fi sb
Swinging it out and gorging himself;
While others are coming in hasie to share
Whatever is left of the dainty fare.
guess they vii have scanty meal,
For 10! the back foeks as a ioit hey wheel
Now gathering thick, now whirring this way.
Ashley seemingly drop from the ouds on their pre-,
And now the carniyorous feastirg begins;
Stripping and pealing, amit tlang of wings.
Greedily swo.Iowing, chasing ani choking,
Some stealing morsel, some battle provoking;
Then one by one
The guzzling done,--
Uucouth they leave he ground;
With aw kward springs
On happing wings,
They mount up with bound;
AS to faint the air O. the upper SKY,
With the loathed breath of obsccnity.
Ifthou woudst fairest vitue fnd,
o seek het with the humble mind!
NO groVel'ng vice. no dazzling show,
Doth unambitious Nett know. 81
Yazoo i'y, Oct. 9th, s39.
From the Mo York american.
SARATOGA
Sand banks and swamps, and dwarf pine trees,
Ard streets with dust be clouded-
A score of shingle palaces
With squafd splendar crowded. -
Old cennoisseurs OF ball and route,
he Young with envy teing:
Old gourma DIS crippled with the govt,
Their latest measure tr ing.
Grey politicians at their tricks
Of bargain, Sltan-aidd d;
j he Tattersas Of Politics,
Where men for mules are traded,
Old maids at loggerheads with FINE,
Their girlhood wiles ESSAY ing;
Aud dandy amateurs ofrhyme,
Their album gifts display ing.
A daily draft of water, such
- that of anci ut Marah,
Which the parched Arab would not touch
Up,n his hot Sahara.
Wild Rob Roys rule at dinner hour,
Around the crowded table
That he hall take who has he power,
And he shall keep who's able.
Yet here disease with Trembling limb,
And cheek without its roses;
And faded lip, with eve grown dim,
mournful tale discloses.
Wo for these stricken ones ofearth!
Why come they here to borr W,
From ii d. crowds and hearttess mirth,
An added weight of sorrow?
Oh! sadly to the falling eye
The merry dance is moving;
Young forms of beauty floating by
The loved ones and the loving!
On bearded p and flir young face,
The astrial's light is glowing;
Ger manly form and maiden grace,
A softeneG lustr' throwing.
observation-disclosures! mIrth and song,
Through bower and hall are waking;
Yet midst The gay and ghttering throng,
How many hearts are aching!
Eair brews, with gems and roses set,
Would best beseem the willow;
And eyrs now bright with smiles, viii wet
With tears "a sleepless pillow.
And this is Saratoga! Well
Give m instead, the glory
Oh 'a,ure's rock, and strfa m, and deli
And heetling promontory-
Her dance of waves on Oceans Shore
The brecze-harp OF her mountains
The oaken shadows filling Der
Her flesh and undrugged fountains!