The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-04-14
POETRY.
SATIRE WELL AIMED!
Tom he Marion (Ala5anal Herald.


From TIE Marion (Alabama) Herald.
We take grea, pleasure in directing tho attsn
ton of the reader 10 " The Bastle,r by mernbe
of the Literary and Philosophical Society. Tht
lines are really beautiful and caus,c, and we mus
say the subject which lie salaries is one at which
ridicule may with great propricty be drcctcd-ar
least in the opinion Of the gentlemen.
THE BuSrLE.
sr MENBER OF THE MARION LITERARY AND PHO.
serHIcM SOCIETY.
Haste, Venus daughter of the purple wave,
Unyeil on earth thy radiant charms no more.
HE maid Of beauty TO thy coral cave.
Thy peerless reign. alas too soon is DER.
No longer now ye artless Graces rise,
Your forms in sweet perfection to display;
Love, grace, and beauty, with the goddess dies,
'Since now Ia mode proclains the Buste's sway
Hail, humpback'd muse if such muse there be
OF gods begat or of the briny sea.
Last to my song, sweet goddess now attend,
And with my verse thy humpiest numbers blend
From Helicon, or from Parnassus' height,
Look Ger my page and guide my pen Alright
Tell me, ye daughters of tho tuneful Nine,
If one of you e'er wore a hump behind
Tell me, ye sisters Of the graceful Three,
IL such bump on one OF you there be
oh say sweet goddess of the nimbe chase,
Does such hump your outward woman grace
Proclaim it, mistress of the rosy morn,
Does such hump your outward Eve adorr
Speak, gentle Hebc, thou fairest of the fair,
And if hump thou hast, sweet goddess tell US
where. Tblest.
Hail, beauteous Psyche whom artless Nature
With charms BY far mere perfect than the les:
In praise Of whom, both gods and men combine,
Say, lovely sprlte, wclrest thou hump behind Z?
IN vain, alas the sculptors god.hke art,
BIDS grace and beauty into being start
In vain he moulds the female form divine,
If Venus lacks an extra hump behind
In vain, Apollo strikes the tuneful Tyre.
And all the MUSES. in her praise conspire
Even Poets sing, mid Temples fiowery maze,
And Gods combine TO utter forth her praise
All, no 'mong all in vain | seek to find,
a maid who wears a shapeless hump behind.
Proclaim it, daughters of the tunefnl choir
And touch my song with notes Of liquid fire,
Whilst now sing of etiquette, the laws,
Extcl 10 mode, and plead Bustles" cause.
TAil. beauteous hump mysterious hustle say
Offesh and blood Of re-, or bran, OF hay,
Art thou composed, and st thou claim
A local situation and name lend,
Say whence thou sprung, and what thy use and
And these promise with my verse 10 blend
Thou art, indeed, the pride Of every belle,
Who delights at all 10 cut an extra Sveu,
And, by thy aid, secure the utmost honor
That feathers, rags or hav, can heap upon her.
l know Of humps, at least a score in ali,
Which have been worn from time immemorial :
TO wit the back the shoulders and It's said,
That humps abound upon the snooGhest head.
Now, il from these paternity you claim.
1 hen tel me- pray what IS your proper name +!
Some call the Bishop" Bunkey,"' Tournure, -
And others, by at least dozen more.
But now, forsooth, myself viii call thee hustle "
Nhich means, You know, TO fisk about ndhusto,
Or move, at least, within 50 small compass,
AS not to raise riot row, or rumpus.
But these agide, ID thee alone we find,
Love, grace and beauty, in one leap com5in'd.
In thee alone, new beauties rise and live,
which only art and etiquette give.
among the grave, the gay, the sad, the merry,
Each maid displays, hump Ia DromedGrg;
The rich, the poor, tho duas and debts entrammei
Are found equipped. Ia Ia mode de Camel.
The young, the old, though long since tired Of
fashion,
Alike delight the extra hump to lash on.
In truth It's strange, the gods should thus mistake
And place such beauties on Dromey's back,
When Venussure, thismark Of grace should claim,
Ana rdiSe complete LsF beauty, baeh, and lame.
Hail, wond'rous age when Natures perfect law
Resigns the contest to a bag Of straw
When fashion bold, embracing every within,
Arguments the form where \ Nature fam would trim,
And TASTE as tickle as the feeGng wind,
Must needs attach an extra hump behind
While youth and beauty, bending meath tie load,
Becomes martyr TO the laws De mode.
But, spite oftheso, III plead Bustle's cause,
EHtol Ia made, ind emulate tie laws,
The age, the custom etiquette and taste,
The largest hustle, and the slenderest waist;
And If for these, I'm favored BY the fair,
III add the grace, the manners and the air,
For all are written in that pcrfec. code,
The Laws Of Fashion, or in French, Ia raoEe.
ORIE.