Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-01
NO. Al.
To BID my heart rejoice,
Thy fairy form see, | hear
The music OF thy voice.


Thy fairy form | see, hear
The music oil thy voice.
Then wake-though DER thy gentle head
In dean, wild iraAces play,
Oh wake-ihough hopes are round thee she'd
That waking fades away;
Oh wake thee, deIest, wake awhile,
Thy gentle voice we need,
Without thy volt without thy smile
The night is night indeed.
This was sung by music man Of
rather dingy complexion I've had paid
him dollar, for we have no music in
our souD under the widows window, lat
hallpast eleven O'Clock =. NJ. precise
ly. For an audience we had two men,
three boys and a Waterman, all f" just
dropped by and having an ear for
sweet sounds, remained TO listen. kind
~ throwing in few remarks, such as
awake 'cmup Darby" go il trong,"
&C., land TO show their musical abilities,
whistlcd or sung oil,hand accompani-
mcnts cnlivcned with occasianal imita-
tons Of the French horn. In the mid
die Of the third line ofthe second verse,
our musician SUDDENLY sneczcd-whcrc-
upon the applause became tumnltuous.
We we're favored with bouquet by
The widow, butin dropping it she drop
ped Ter night-cap. II came sailing
down like a snow-wrcath from heaven,
and now hangs, even unto THIS day, be-
side our mirror, warning to gods and
men.
What a very absurd business. by
the by, is this sercnading. For the Ia
dy.it may be well enough to be wakcn-
ed from deep sleep, and then sooth-
ed TO slumbcr again by strains that
steal ont on the night air. She rctires
about ten Z. M. after doing up her
lovely locks in brown paper, pulls over
them warm night cap, cnrolls her
sclfin a gown that it did not take Mrs.
Tippct a week to fit and fashion, or
her immaculate washcrwoman to Will
tcn--thus enceascd she rolls in snugly,
with nothing visible but the tip end OF
her lovely nose. When the music
awakons her, she opens one car, and
long before the last quaver dies away,
is lost in dreams again. The day fol
lowing, the scrcnadcd boasts--"Oh!
had such nice scrcnadc last night =
two flutes. fiddle, guitar and all, anc
Mr.. did sing so--Oh, my!' Wei
enough, well enough. But COR full grown
men, after dawdling about on chairs
and sofas until midnight, to travcl
round attached to guitars and hddlcs,l'
too absurd To feel when "twiligh1
dcws arc failing fast" that they arc
watering a cold in the chest, or that
the " winds that sigh around thy bow
CT" arc playing the very deuce will
your hollow tooth; TO know that tho
guitar vii give place 10 a caiarrh, OF
that the tromboncs will be followed BY
aching bones,is slckcning. Go TO balls
parties, suppcrs--gct drunk--go on ;
cc,and suffer observation-disclosures i
some alienation in yonrmisory to know
that there was fun and excitement il
the deed. Pooh.--hirc band anc
send them round, with orders TO bring
home all that is thrown out, even u
chair, and next morning, aGecr a com
Portable nights rest, you cen gather in
the laurels
Here, in the right Of an experienced
old bachelor permit us TO giie ane
word of advice TO lovers in general
Never spend ccntin love making. j
the girl is worth having, you cannot
purchase her with bouquets and bug.
GIGS, scrcnadcs and sonnets. IL add:
TO the agony Of the rejected ono tc
/ know, thathc has not only lost his heart
but his dimes. lie may do IS nm old
friend of ours once did, make out bill
stop, We have it somewhere
about-ah! here il IS:
LnzY CATcmgu,
rs DAvY DdNrs, DR.
I tn Is screnades, ore dollar per serenade SIG o.
:. &c buggy rides, one dollar fay cents each 81 0t
as! bouqne,,, .ay one dollar per bonqufi 50 "
80! days time lost, three dollars per day 276 0t
1855 Of
To this DIvy added a large sum in
the way OF damages for friends lost and
doctors bill. But this, however
amusing will not heal light pocket
anv more th,l it can cure a heavy
heart.
In pursuit OF the widow we thinncd
and palcI rapidly. Lovc-making, as
Montczuma Dawkins correctly remarks,
is purity fun but it can't last forever,
and in onr case we determined TO end