Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-12-08
Address to a Mummy, at BelZOni's
Exhibition.


Thou'rt standing onthy legs above ground Mummy,
Revsiting the grimpses of the moon,
Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures,
But with thy bones, and flesh, and limbs, and
features.
Tell US, for doubtless thou canst recollect,
To whom shall we assign the Spynx's fame,
Was Cleops or Cephrenes architect
OF either pyramid that bears his name!
Was Pompey's pillar really misnomer-
Had Theoes hundred gates, sung by Homer?
Perchance that very hand, now pinioned fiat,
Has hob-a-nob'd with Pharoah glass to glass,
Or drop'd half penny in Homers hat,
Or doffed tine own to let queen Dido pass,
Or held, at Soomon's own invitation,
A torch at the great temples dedication.
l need not ask thee if that hand when armed
Has any Roman soldier mauled and knuckled,
For thou vast dead, and buried, and embalmed,
Ere Romuus or Remis had been sucked;
Antiqity appears to have begun
Long after thy primeral race was run.
Perchance thou vert Mason, and forbidden
By oath to tell the mysteries of thy trade;
Then say what secret melody was hidden
In Memnon's statue which at sunrise played
Perhaps thou vert priest-if so my struggles
Are vain, for priest-craft never OWLS its juggles.
Thou couldst develope, if that withered tongue
Would tell US what those sghtless orbs have seen,
How the world looked when twas fresh and young
And the great deluge still had left it green,
Or was If then, as now, that History's pages
Contained no records of its early agesi
Sill silent, incommunicative elf,
Art sworn to secrecyl-then keep thy vows
But prithee, tell me something of thy self,
Reveal the secrets of thy prison house
Since in the world of spirits thou hast slumbered,
What hast thou seen; what strange adventures
numberedt
Since first thy form was in this box extended,
We have above ground seen some strange mu-
tationS;
The Roman Empire has begun and ended,
New worlds have risen we have lost old nations;
And countless Kings have into dust been humbled,
While not fragment of thy flesh has crumbled.
Did'st thou not hear the pother DER thy head
l
When the great Persian conquerer, Cambyses,
Marched armies DER thy tomb with laundering
tread,
O'erthrew Osirius, Oris, Apis, Isis,
And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder
When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder!
If the tomb's secrets may not be confessed,
The nature of thy private life unfold;
A heart has beat within that eathern breast,
And tears adown those dusky cheeks have rolled
Have children climbed hose knees and kissed that
face!
What was thy name and station, age and racel
Statue of flesh! immortal of the dead!
Imperishable type of evanescencet
Posthumous man who quits't thy narrow bed
And standest undecayed within our presence;
Thou wilt hear nothing til the judgment morning
When the loud trump shall thrill thee with its
warning!
| Why should this worthless tegument endure
And its undying guest be lost forever!
Oh! be the soul embalmed in Christ and pure,
Redeemed and sanc.iied; that when they sever,
Though into dust the body may con sumo,
The deathless spirit in the skies may bloom.
The first White Child born IN the U. States
it is said, was chrstenhd after the state in
which she Was horn. She was gtand- daughter
Of the royal governor This was in August
1887, The chld's name was Virginia Dare