The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-08


ne Fancy Hall at Saratoga, August III, 1s4s
BY b. d. FRENCH.
"Fair one, come lean upon nv arm
And you shall now behold,
Cleaning with radiant beauty,
And glittering in gold
A scene of iife-a glorious scene
As ever met the eye
In India's rich and glowing land,
Or meath Italia's sky"
Thus spake he, and they entered in
The damsel and the knight
Where shone, among Thousand trees,
Ten thousand points Of light;
And all the coors Nature wears,
When in her gay attire,
Were mingled in mass of light,
And glowed with living fire.
The moon, in silver, triumphed DER
The black domain of night;
With many beauteous, twinkling star,
Heavens bending arch was bright;
And high the rockets blazing train,
Amid the silent air,
Shot up, at intervals, and spread
Its rainbow beauties there.
g This, lady, is the outer court
Where yon gira ndeles glow,
Diffusipg their soft radia nee,
Like moonbeams shed on snow
Where music swells In cadences
AS sweet as mortal ear
Fer listened to-where fairy scenes
And fairy forms appear
There is the temples shrine, and there
Beauty her court will hold,
Until to- morrow's sun shall tint
Morn's eastern gates with gold''
They stood amid that brilliant scene
Thelady and the knight
Der his broad brow the towering plumcs
Were bent in red and white,
While the fair girl, who leant upon
That C9ur de Leon arm,
Seemed to have left some ancient court
A modern world to charm
Amid the buzz and beauty, there,
The gentle and the good,
One who possessed poets wish,
IL not his genius, stood;
And as he viewed the may dance,
And scanned the mimic mime,
His thoughts took color from the scene,
And thus moved on in rhyme
j walks, in splendor up the hall,
on Cesar de Bazan,
And there, Verona's gentlemen
And beauteous Lady Ann
Othello came not-nor his bride,
His Desdemona fair
They feared " that handkerchief" might reach
Thy fingers, Rob. Macaire!
For thou, incorrigible thief,
Politest, too, Of beaux,
Art death en- every handkerchief
That comes beneath thy nose
Fen Samuel Sticks was not too mean
For thee away to fleece
heard him SHOWING " how twas stole
leetle slicker n grease"
What bud of beauty fleets so light
Around the gay saloon
"Aurora "-such a morn as thou
Capst never come too soon .
Although, like lovely Juliet
We did thine advent mark,
We knew " 1t was the nightingale
And not the early clark"
And who comes here? "My lady's maid,n
All Of the olden time;
And here, "My Lord Chief Justice Coke,n
In gown and wig sublime.
Nuns, fairies, sailors, and briga nds,
Go Waiting through the hall
And cen the Quaker lovely wife,
Is liveliest Of them all
An, ha La File du Regiment,
asked the Quaker sly,
Is not that merry, dancing girl,
Thy wife ?" "Yea, verify
Thee, my good friend, hath rightly guessed,
Although, now clad in arms
She is my better half, so man
Beware thee of her charms''
This said, Old Broad Brim moved away
With solemn air and mien,
And soon was gaily flirting, with
Some syph-like, fairy queen!
"Jockey OF oh, no!
More modern jockey thou,
thy fair face, and slender form,
Shall many damsel bow.
But for thy merry, glancing eye,
And smile upon thy lips
Thou wouldst bring back the good old days
OF Purdy and Eclipse.
He prince Of jockeys, who with spur,
So many field had won,
doubt me If he e'er was seen,
Full gallop with nun
Here walks old Denmark gloomy prince,
In sable vestments clad
But comes not, at the crow Of cock,
His grim and ghostly dad.
Brave cavaliers from France and Spain,
And turban'd Turks seen
And men, as sober citizens,
In black, and blue, and green.
And women, too as women, here
By hundreds you may find,
WHO wear no brilliants but their eyes,
No jewels save the mind.
When the grey streaks of morning light
Were in the eastern sky,
That glorious festival was DER
And closed was many an eye
Whose rays, at midnight, flashed around
In glowing life and light,
Upon as gay and glad a scene
AS e'er met mortal sight.
CHIEF JUSTICE BENEDICT, "a mulatto,) of Libe-
a, was arrested at the suit of person named Ty-