The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-11-17
From the ~Stingaree.
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- ~ 49, ~ - N'ho ftktt til INV
This web of spiders torture net of flies
"herc the weak sntier, aud the powerful thrive;
" there's another HE'LL beneath the skies.
1hIs is the poor mans that for you. ye Dives!
AZ al events, unless the good book lics,
And ere TOO late ye mend Your worthless lives,
fc cannot hope 10 eutcr Paradise.
your DooMs pronounced! and tho your hireling
strives
Your black-stoled priest-with subtle sophistr,s,
no iaisfy that text which you deprivcs
OF hope c,ornal-rather trust your eyes
READ! and REFoRM .-efe DEATH the power denies.
nav be charged, with plausibili,y,)
with breaking OIL the threads Of my discourse
Too oft-with rambling-instability-
l own my Pegasus a strange ~ lid horse,
or q free spirit-curblcss as the sea
That kicks most mulc=likc if ] seek to force
10 steady gait and course-and, probably,
The sober reader he too often bores
With sudden flights and wand'rings 3" fancy frce,-
But, he is backed 80 for better of for worse,
And while j mourn the brute's Inconsistency,
l cannot promise you, in future, Sirs-
Misses and Ma'ams-less episode verse.
] make no promise, in these PUcKERINGs
To follow rule or method, or confLe
To any theme, my weekly nirrorings-
Views, thoughts, reaectians-anything in fine,
You please to term them hut, wRcre'cr the wings
or my free mind it's course shall chance incline,
There will l note, of matters. men, and things.
~ the earth, earthly of the heaven, divine:
All that the journey to my vision brings -
Hold the bright reflex forth to men and swine.
Jassacks and lions, priests, patriots, and kings,
Puppies and par'isans, dandics and other kline;
In short: whatc'er's observing of a line"
My aims amueement--''jus just for fun l write;
Careless Of ccnsurc, and OF hum,n praise)
And, partly, II may be, to vent my spite
OF which all fplk have some, in these bad dav.
Howevcr amiablc and polite
n co,mpangyr.they may be. All have ways
VI letting oil their of sigh.
The - yEaY BEST of wives" So Cd,idle saws
ET 1H%iad her i%r steam spIenstiG every night,
His prayers being said glowing with chaste de-
light,
To fold her through the night in his embrace,
Il . orc the hp1p lg 11.,ns, 600 Il .-4 II
l wonder not that SocRArEs partook
With godlike calInness of the hemIrok tea
Draining the bitter cup with gentle look,
Asa mild gossip quafIs her loved hohea
| marvel not his no sic frame nee, shook,
Nor his mind lost it's proud philosophy
The hitter agony He we'll might brook.
CHalsT died not with such quiet MAJESTY;
Nor WASHINGTON nor in the dazzling book.
Whose pages beam with immortality,
Shines there the name of mortal that forsook
Lifc, with such sweet serenity rs he:
And why THEY DID BOT LEAVE A XnnfiDDe
What were Lies haublcs to as wise a saoe
As the long vista of the Pas. can shcw,
Whose 90 better-half' was always " in a rage -,
A petticoated tigrcss cursed shrew
That tore his hair, shirt, ~nightcap, learned pace.
Upset his ink, and round his tablets threw +!
His bedroom made a bedlamitic cage =
A "Capdic.Lecture ROOM" the whole night
Made his life g hideous' with keen badinage,-
AS in these "latter days. viragos do
And, I'll be sworn, lived he in our age,
Like oua hcnPccked ones, he would take unto
Rot gut, apd die-of Mania a potu!
Thank God like him., I have not to COMPLAIN.
Night and night lectures Ive no cause TO dread.
l look not forward, through the day, with pain
Thinking DER all the bitterness of'-bed!
Nor have with ardents to shut from my brain
The horrors to the heppecked damned ont.
spread.
Indeed, / cannot see, while there's ratsbanc,
Dirks, razors any means, by which life's sped,
How any wretch, pretending to be sane,
Can endure to be nightly tortur-cd-
Or any female iyrants stool reniain-
When HE so EASILY MIGHT SINAI LIrE's THREAD.
AND TAKE THAT REST HE coULDN'r FIND IN BED.
But not in woMAN's eyes alone, "thc beam :"
Not she alone, a HE'LL of HOME creates;
How many MALE things, that d" before folk'' seem
The BEST of ~ands-hone their mates
with { My Dear this, and Nj Lone that-ail
cream,
Sugar and strawb'rics to their {" gentle KatesI-
So fond, you'd think tina; they " would not bctccm
The winds Of heaven too roughly fan" their
pates-
That when AT HOME and they no longer deem
II NECESSARY 10 Disguise their hates,
Throw off the saint, and vent the long pcnt stream
OF ire upon The gentle partners of their fa,es
Cursing and damning them 6 at awful rates 9"
NEVER GIVE UPS so long as it is in vopr
power TO avail yourself of that justly celebrated
remedy for Coughs, Colds, and every species of