The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-18

turn me from my deep unrest
TO muse upon thine eyes;
Or il, perohanec, sweet sleep appear
To bid my heart rejoice,
Thy fairy form | see, heal
The music of thy voice.
Then wake though DER thy gentle head
In dreams, wild fancies plFy, shed
Oh! wake-though hopes are round thee
That waking fades away;
Oh! wake thee, dearest, wake awhile,
Thy gentle voice we need,
Without tiny voice, without thy smile,
The night is night indeed
This was sung by music man OF rather
dingy complexion 1--WE had paid him dol
lar, for we have no music ia our soul } un~
dor the widows window, at half past II
o'clock, P. NJ. precisely. For an audience
we had two men. three boys and watch
man, all "just dropped by and having an
ear for sv eet sounds, remained TO listen,
kindly throwi0g in few remarks, such as
"wake 'em up, Darby" Ego it strong"
&C., and 10 show their musical abilities,
whislled or sungof hand accomplishments,
enliveaed with occasional limitations OF the
French horn. In the middle Of the third
line Of the second verse our musician sud
denly sneezed-w hereupon The applause
became tumuItuous. We were favored
with bouquet by the widow, but 10 drop
ping it she dropped her nigh,.caP. 1t came
sailing down like snow-wreath from heaN
ven, and now hOngs, even unto his day,
beside our mirror, warning to gods and
men.
What very absurd business, by the by,
is this serehadng. For the lady, it may be
we'll enough to be Weakened from deep
sleep. ard then soothed TO slumber again
bv strains that steal out on the night mir.
She retires about ten P. M. after doing up
her lovely locks in brown paper, pulls over
them warm nigh, cap, eurolls herself IN
a gown lhatit did not take Mrs. TiPpel a
week to fiji and fashion, or her Immaculate
washerwoman to whnen-thus encaset
she rolls in snugy, with nothing vislble-b u
the tip end Of her lovely nose. When thu
music awakens her, she opens ono ear, ant
long before the last quaveF dies away, u
lost in dreams again. The day following
the serenaded boasts-"Oh! had such q
nice serenade las, might've flutes, fiddle
guitar and all, and MIR. - did sing so
Oh, myn' Well enough, we'll enough
But for full grown men, after dawdlot
about on chairs and sofas until midnight, Il
travel round attached to guitars and tddles
is too absurd. To feel when "twilgh
dews are falling fast" that they are water
ing cold in the chest, or that the "wInd
that sigh around thy bower" are playing
The very deuce nth your hollow tooth; t
,, know that the guitar will give place TO
catarrh. or that the trombones will be fol
loved by aching bones, is slckenIng. VI
; to balls, parties, supPers-get drunk-g'
on spree, and suffer alterVards-ihere II
some alienation in your misery to kno"
,ba, there was fun and excitement 10 tn
deed. Bat serenadiag is a cold bIoode'
business, Poh!-hire band and SEM
them round, with orders TO bring home al
that is thrown out, even chair, and mex
morning, after comfortable nights rest
YOU can gather in the laurels.
l. Here, 10 the right Of an experienced on
bachelor, permit US to give one word OF ad
VICE 10 lovers 10 general. Never spend /
cent in love making. If she girl is wortl
having, you cannot purchase her with bou
: ouets and buggies, serenades and sonnets
> / adds to the agony Of the rejected one t
know. that he has lost not only has hear
bu his dimes. He may doas uold frien'
Of ours once did, make out blll--stoP
+, we have it somewhere about-ah! here
is:
4 '''@ To DAvY DUMPe, DR..
u To is sernenedes, one dollar per seEenade, Sl6
= 10 buggy rides, 81 so each, 10
50 bouquets, say one dollar per bouquet, % Y
90 DAYS; time lost, three dollars per day, 2I6 0
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