The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-09-29

K hO3hkoS. q III POChhy oy
SAKE, dedicated to Oliver Wendell Holmes
has been Published by Jordan & Wiley
s4t was written at the instance Of the Associ
ated Alumni Of Middlebury College, and wal
spoken before that Society, July %, 1885,
The satire in the following extractsi is happi
ly applied
Let thoughts too idle 10 be fifty dressed
Ia sturdy Saxon, be in French expressed;
Let lovers breath Italian-like, in sooth,
Its singers, soft, cma sculaie md smooth;
But for a tongue, whose ample powers embrace
Beauty and force, sublimity and grace,
Ornate or plain, harmonious yet strong,
And formed alike for elsquence and song,
Give me the ENGLIsH-aptest tongue 10 paint
A sage or Ounce, a villa in or a saint,
To spur the slothfuJ, counsel the distressed,
To lash the opprcssor and TO sooth the oppressed,
To leEd fantastic Humor frecst scope,
To marshal all his laughter moving hoop,
Give Pathos power, and Fancy lighteSt wings,
And Wit his brightest and his keenest sings.
hdl lHplOuS iHOChCI1I "hCn HIthSOulACS AT
Fashion, intrusive, seeks TO rule the heart;
Directs how Grief may tastefully be borne;
1~nslructs Bereavement just how long 10 mourn
Shows Sorrow how by nice degrees TO fade,
And marks its measures in a ribbons shade!
More impious still, when through her wanton
laws,
She desecrates Religions sacred cause;
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And how genteelest worms may worship God;
How sacred rites may bear a worldly grace,
And self-abaSement wear a naughty face;
How sinners, long in Folly's mazes whiIled,
With pomP and splcndor may "renounce the
world"
How with all saints hereafter TO appeal"
Yet quito escape the vulgar portion here!
Degraded Congress! once the honored scene
Ofpatriot dcels; where men of solemr mein,
In virtue strong, in understanding clear,
Earnest, though Courteous, and though smooth,
sincere,
To eravcst ~counscls lent the teeming hours,
Aad gave their country all their mighty powers.
EuItiines arc changed; a rude degenerate race
Usurp the seats and shame the sacred place.
Here plotting demasosues, with zeal defend
The peoples rights to sain some private end;
Here southern youths, on FO;ly'S surgcs toast,
Their fathers wisdom eloq uently boast;
$50 dowerless spinis:ers proudly number DER
The costly jewels that their gran dmams wore.)
Here, would-be TrfLYs pompously parade
Their iumid tropcs for simple " Buncombc"
made,
Fail on the chair the chilling torrent shower,
And work their word pumps through the allotted
hour.
Dcluded "Buncombe." while with honest praise,
She notes each grand and patriotic phrase,
And, much rejoicing in her hopeful son,
Deems all her own the laurelsle has won,
She little dreams how brother members fed,
And left the house as vacant as his head
Here rural CHArHAMs, eager to attest
The growing greatness of the mighty West"
To make the plainest proposition clear,
Crack PRIscIAS's head; and Mr.. SPEAKER's ear I;
Then closing up in one terrific shoot,
Pour all their wild cats fu~riously out!
Here lawless Doors with ruff; n bullies vie
Who last shall give the rude, insulting lie,
Will. "Order! order" loud the chairman calls,
And echoing "Order," every member bawls;
Till rising high in rancorous debate,
And higher still, in fierce enrenomed ha,c,
Retorted blows the scene of riot crown,
And big LrcuRGrs knocks the lesser down.,