New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-10
From Sargepra Magazine.
BROADWAY.
Ely y. p. WILLIS.

BY y. +. WILLIS
ALL hail, thou ever joyous Broadway Hail
Broadway, my crony! Broadway my jolly com
panion Broadway, my Ganymede, my Mercury,
INV purveyor of all tnngs pleasursbe, and OF SOM
things pleasant bur wrong lnexhausiibe oId
Broadway! Funny old Broadway !-(for person
fed thou shalt bei)
Father Thames, they say-and " Father II
ber.'' AID the boatmen in the g broad horns talk
of cold Mother Mississippi But thou, my
merry old Broadway, art too promiscuous for ou
mother-too lax and loving for our exemplar.
father Yet more prodiga OF wealth art thou than
Thames or Tiber-more fecund than Mississippi
How wilt thou be denumInated IN the apostrophc
nomenclature of afectionate patriotism
BROADWAY. OUR UNCLE!
Does that sound we'll? Tell US, oh Astor and
Croton! Tell us oh Stewart and Thompson Tel
us, oh Brandreth and Battery, Park, Nibo, and
Bowling. green-ye that arc the Din MinoreS o.
this paved Paradise, the planets of this inverted
parallel of the milky-way-tell US, what think yon
of our UScLE7''
Halleck, my "croaker"-,Eiou that hast mai
"Scudders balcony" immortal Marco Bozza
ris-slrng up thy specie Tyre and clink US meta
lie psesn TO our " Nuncle' of Broadway
Bard of - Thanatopsis "-brood with thy wings
of solemn incubation upon the maniaShopsis Of GU
uncle! So shall the unhappy born to pay b
added to the great company OF admirers. And So,
in the next plate OF the poets, shall thy head b
putwhere the man a-top' siS-and looking less lih
old Time thy grandacherD
Give us the genesis of our uncle, on aoorgin4i
Stone
Fuse and re-cast him in the great foundry Of Thy
imagination, Oh Cooper, creative and combative
Come, Morris, with thy muse of anti hack-t
down atveness. and thy anacfeontlcs on Inc water
thon drinkest not-Come Paulding, with thy lea
rian wngs-Come, Wetmore, with Thy few-and-
far-betweenities-Co all the bards Of Manhut
tan, and gorfy old Broadway our Uncle
Foc was not the late marriage of our tathei
Knickerbocker Manhattan Miss Pastora Crotop
celebrated with song and ceremony, and our undi'
Crowded as he from tho even tenor ot his
way was he not poinlediy ornitted in the laureat
Epithalanum Truly, Broadway, oh eser-eng'b-
ening uncle our familiarity with thee must have
bred contempt. But, alas for distnction.-
"Glory is like circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth 10 enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading, il dhperse 10 nough"
And row let US down softly from these giddy
stills and common take US INTO his safer
keeping
We do not write for Autolycus nor for Timon
Thieves and misanthropes do no, commonly TAX
the monthlies. And assall other classes OF mat.
kind Weld to the gregarious instinct of cur race.
we feel free to discourse OF Broadway place
beloved. Beloved it s-by the Philanthropist, L.
terested in the peccant varieties Of his feow-crea
lures; by the old, who love to look upsn the
young and by the young, who love TO look uPon
each other; (ah the celestial qualities OF youth y
by the serious, for whom there would seem 10 be
resorts less thronged with sinners Gf need were,)
and by silners who are at least guitless OF hyPoc
ri.y, for with little disguise, they love one ano
Their" New, if beautiful women not laudahi,
objects of contemplation and curiosity, as St. An
thony AYERS (and he is welcome to let them alone,
we are not warned against beautiful children, nor
beautiful horses, the bright sunshine, nor tbs,
guy product of the skworm, nor the . stuits from
Colchis and Trebizond." And we Gas many as
there are Of us) arc free TO confess our weaknes IS
for these sights (womcn included and our rlean-
choly preference of them to the contemplation OF
most walls, and some kinds OF very exemplary
readins-for flesh is weak Are you with US Oh
fral reader Could you wi,houtviolence to youl
better nature, take walk with as in Broadway
Pray take
Two o'clock and sunny day in October =
Whrl whrl What tumut of wheels Flash
naunti What movement Of bright colors-like &
walking mosaic, like maggoly rainbow, like
"a dry goods taking the air. Are the shops dis
ernboweledi Are eyes turned to prisms =
Slide-slide shuffe-shuttle nod-dodse-
Take care of the cart at the crossing y" w ha,
sil-Tribune and Express /" And now when you
have recovered from your first auacl into the
crowd, keep steadily 10 the right, and i'll seueez'
your arm, look the person coming toward US.
Very handsome, isn't she? And apparently in y
very great hurry, and apparently very much dis
gusted at being seen in the street all. You would
think now, that that lady's coachman was i'll and
that she was, for this once in her life, walking
alone TO her mothers But she is mole amused
at this moment than she will be again to-day; and
Tomorrow she will take the same walk to be hap
ply again. She has husband, however, and a
beautiful house, and not wish (thst money can
gratify) ungra,i6ed. And her drawing-rooms are
fall of exquisite objects of art. She might stay
contentedly a, home, YOU think? No; she a
bsile, pampered with admiration when she mar
ried and she married cynical and cold.blooded
Parsnip. who sits like snarling ogre among his
statues and pictures--a spot on his own ottoman
osem,sh 10 the elegance of his own house. She
married MIN for an establishment bur forgot he
was part OF lt-dazzleG with the frame she over
looked Ina hideousness OF tho picture. And he
KNOWS 1his, and likes her, with his statues as his
properly and is pleased 10 have her seen as his
WIFE, though she Is the wife but one part of him.
ms vaHlty. ohe nnds it hard 10 feel beautiful III
breakfast, WITH her husband on the other side of
the table, and ne hnss it hard TO be very bland
with wife who looks at his acrid phvsioono,ov
with shudder. 4 ssperb house win him =; :,
is like fine tulip with adder in il. Bin, sbe l.
a woman, and whether she has heart or no shs.
has well cultivated vanity, aud unluckily. tho
parents who taught her TO secure luxury in wee,
lock, taught her no foresight her more need.
full supply of admiration. Love she would like
very well, bu, admired she mns. BE- And too cold