The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-07-30
La File du Regiment.
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Be the sunnest ray
That over Marischaps caput can play.
III venture to say
Till the world turns gray
The dollsrum dihs will hold paramount sway.
Well, this Regiment marching in valiant array,
With colors SO gay,
Happened to meet with an overthrewn ebay,
With baby inside OF ittryi ing to pray
So the enfant trouvee
They carry away
And adopt as their daughter, sans cersmonie.
Dear Reader, you'll please to remember this case
OF abduction took place
A long time before the first scene Of the piece,
And though Sulpice the sergeant, the basi
Has had many a chase,
In trying to trace
Out her father and mother, or aught Of her race,
That they might embrace
A daughter SO lovely in figure and face;
But vain his endeavors, now you may see
The pretty Marie
As contentsd and hpppy as happy can be.
With q step as light and will as free
As sweet little bird in the boughs OF tree,
Or nice little fish in some beautiful sea,
Or frolcsome fawn on q mead0wy lea,
Full Of glee,
Or little iairee,
Or any thing else that occurs to thee,
That tciH with those characteristics agree.
And the soldiers adore their young daughter for sh
Makes most undeniable coffee and lea.
And MARBLES moreover magni6cently.
Now this little Marie short time ago,
Contrived 20 inveigle q bit OF q beau
ORe Tonic
Adapper young Tyrolese peasant, although
He's rather SO So,
As pecuniaries 60,
And Pm angry with Marie for STOPPING so low.
But loves rapid how
Will frequently throw
Strange parties together Tor veal or for woe,
Let the atoms surrounding them like il or no.
Now Toney and Marie, one day, you must knew,
Are singing great Iovet TO each other. when 10!
The Sergeant observ ed them, and he " asnt slow
In detecting how matters were going. ooh no"
Said as rushing al down with n: s. IN glow
Her hand on mGndit Psysan, and q foe."
But the sergeant stout
Was soon put to the rout
Love had carried the poorly defended redoubt
or the heart of Marie, and no menace or shout
Can send such conqueror right about;
"For" said she with pout,
"If my amiable mother don't know that Pm out,
What is il to you,
What ever do.
30 please Mr. Sergeant I'll follow my sout."
Mile yeu1,
Sacre bleli,
Quslls uns audacieuI,"
SAID the grande miiitaire, in deuce Of a stew.
In most unav silable passion he few,
For M7rie was true,
.4norour,
And stuck to her psint, like gallon ofglue;
So they compromised things in minute or two
By putting him thro
An ipduct0ry few
Mere matters of form to a soldier he grew.
And now expect
In the tri color decked,
His comrades consider that he might affect
A duchess elect,
Or Queen, if her Majesty didn't object
Now the funs what think may venture to call
Uncommonly tall,
When a slice OF good luck nearly ruins them all.
Making Toney the brave, sing prodie iously small.
A Marchioness sOmsthing, bah what's her manner
really forget, but its all the same
Suffice it TO say she's an elegant dame,
Ofthe old regime,
All powder and hoop,a la Louis Cinqurens,
Has come to claim
The glory and PRIDE of the sngt unstene,
She calls Marie her niece, and she takes her away,
And IS matter of course there's old Harry to pay.
You'll please to remember some time has passed
Since line the last,
Marie having cast
Her merino for satin that can't be surpassed,
And natural fund of good breeding amssssd.
Grows into a lady remarkably last,
And sae lives in g beautiful palace among
magni6que aristocraticsl throng;
But you plainly perceive there is something wrong,
For instead of the light hearted rdntonpian,
A feeling OF sorrow pervades her song
nobleman grand
Has offered his hand,
With the wealthiest dover that ever was read,
But Toney, the peasant, still runs in her head
So the Marchoness said,
ITO Toney, the peasant, you cannot be wed,
For q very good reason-becauye he's dead,
So oblige me and marry the Duke instead
And the dutiful darling the tears she shed,
And her little heart bed,
Prepared to encounter the nuptial dread;
Aud they leave her alone and she gszes round
Those beautiful walls, an declares she's found
But little content on nobility ground,
When her startled ear catches q well known sound;
With rapturous bound,
She flies to the window and, marching by,
Her beloved old regiment besses her eye;
And her pulse beats high,
And she fain would cry,
But her brain 10 dry,
And the tears won't come, and she doesn't know why
No more do l.
But OH her delights nexpressble, when
The company enters the chamber, and then
She embraces the flag, she embraces the nen,
Darid and Robert, Thsmasse and Etisnne,
She kisses them over and over again.
But where is poor Toney 7-alas. now her tears
How freely and fast-when she suddenly hears
A voice we'll remembered through changeable years
And fancy her JOY when, saluted with cheers,
In an officers dress her old lover appears.
Dear reader, there isnt much more to disclose,
The Duke has his eengee, as you may suppose,
The Marchioness shows
Inclination for blows,
And doesn't seem willing the matter to close.
When Toney just throws
Out delicate hint, that secret he knows,
A mistake into which she once happened to fall,
The thought she was married, but Wasn't-thsts all
slight error that gave them mother apiece;
Making Marie her daughter, instead of her niece;
SO she gives her consent but really must say,
Twas brought about in most scandalous way. B
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