The Evansville journal., 1844-11-07


want of daughters and of sons
From eight 10 half score.
want (alas. can mortal dare
Such bliss on earth to craye)
That all the girls be chaste and fair
The boys all wise and braYe.s
And when my bosom's darling sings
With melody divine,
A pedal harp of many strings,
Must with her voice combine.
A piano, exquisitly wrought
Must open stand, apart;
That all my daughters may be taught
TO win the strangers heart.
My wife and daughters will desire
Refreshing from perfumes,
Cosmetics for the skin require
And artificial blooms.
The civet, fragrance shall dispense
And treasui'd sweets return:
Cologne revive the tagging sense
And smoking amber burn.
And, when al night, my weary head
Begins to droop and doze,
A southern chamber holds my bed
For natures soft repose:
With blankets, ,counterpanes and sheet;
Mattrass and bed of down,
And comfortable for my feet,
And pillows tor my crown.
want warm and faithful friend
70 cheer the adverse hour:
Who ne'erto falter will descend,
Nor bend the knee to power;
4 friend TO chide me when wrong,
| My inmost soul to see;
And that my friendship prove as strong
For him as his for me.
want kind and tender heart,
/ For others wants to feel;
A soul secure from Fortunes dart
And bosom arm'd with steel,
To bear divine chastisemeni's rod
And mingling in my plan,
Submission to the will of COP
5 With charity to Man.
| want keen, observing eye,
An ever listening ear,
The truth through all disguise TO spy,
And wsdom'S voice 10 hear
A tongue 10 speak at virtues need
In Heaven sublimes; strain;
And lips the cause of man to plead,
And never plead in vain.
| want uninterrupted health,
Throughout my long career;
And streams of never falling wealth
TO scatter far and near.
1.-THE destitute to clothe and feed,
Free bounty TO bestow:
Supply the helpless orphans need
And sooth the widows woe.
| want the genius TO conceive,
The talents TO unfold
> Designs the vicious TO retrieve;
The viruous TO uphold,
inventive power, combining skill;
A persevering soul,
Of human hearts to mould the will
And reach from pole TO pole.
| want the seal of power and place,
The ensigns of command;
Charged by the Peoples unbought grace,
Torule my native Land
F. Nor crown, nor sceptre would ask
But from my country, will,
By day, by night TO ply the task
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want the voice of honest praise
TO follow me behind;
And 10 be thought in future days
The friend Of human kind
That after ages s they rise
Exulting may proclaim
In choral union TO the skies
Their blessings on my name.
These are the wants of mortal man,
: | cannot want them long
For life itself is but span,
And earthly bliss a song.
My last great want absorbing all
Is, when beneath the sod,
And sommon'd 10 my final call;
The mercy Of my God.
And oh while circles in my veins
Oflife the purple stream;
And yet a fragment smell remains
OF natures transient dream;
My soul in humble hope unscar'd
Forget not thou 10 pray,
That this thy rant may be prepared
TO meet The Judgment Day.
WASHINGTON, 18th June, 1871.
OTTHE MOTHER The Picayune this
hat # the Mississippi be the 'father OF watei
the Ohio must be the mother. since they hu
been for seycfal years united.