Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1849-12-27

In what mourntul, though expressive chime
Drearier than monotone, shall it bewail
The twelve-monh newly gone-what "Runic rhyme
Shall it employ, to give the tragic tale
vi all its scenes OF blood and terror to the gale
What shall it say of Indias thousands slain2
India is quiet, says the Morning Post
"The last dispatches tell of orders reign"
The "order Selkirk found upon the coast
OF the lone island where his bark was tost-
"Order," such as the sacred record saith
Regned in the tents of the Assyrian host,
When touched by the dread angels blighting breath,
The proud, eXulting foe lay hushed in stony DEATH
Oh, mother country home of all the arts,
Seat Of all wisdom, learning, justice, grace,
bright example your career imparts
The trans Atlantic ottshoot OF your race;
For when the triumphs OF your arms we trace
From proud Benares to Moultan, we may know
How Christian nations can despoil, deace
The tarast cities of Heather foe,
If costly gems and gold reward them as they go
Sweet Lady-thou that wearst the coronet
Of Engands sovereignty-we call thy name
In kndness-let no piaged pearls be set
Among thy JEWELS let thy gentle fame
Be all unmixed with memories OF shame
LIFT UP THE IRISH PEOPLE: MAKE KNOWN
QUEEN CAN ANSWER NATURES LAST ACCLAIM,
And the bright emerald on thy brow that shone,
Shall fash flashed the Kohi-noors rich stone"
But in the hurried retrospective glance
- Which we would take OF the departing year,
wa nae I hs am am he spoilers should appear7
For freedom stifed in Rienzls home
That mea who boss their liberty, should rear
sir iTo WnnF55 guns 10 SKATER arch and dome
ss7Assh the sacred hills Of everlasting leoms,.
And Kossalh, valiant leader Of The brave,
How have we read the story OF thy fall
What though the Austrian ensign yet may wave
1s crmsoned folds Ger Breseia's PROSTATE WALL,
The Grecian maids that decked the coronal
With laurel fresh and fragrant for the free,
Who rushed to victory at their country's call,
Where classic Marathon looks on the sea-
Nc brighter garland than would Irvine for thee
Yet are there others that deserve the wreath,
Venice. thy sons, who in the hour of dread,
Drew forth the blade and threw away the sheath,
While starving women cried aloud tor bread
Could Harrow render back its noble dead,
The Poet-hero whose resoundng line
Once incurred thy fallen state, thy grandeur fled,
Inspired by this neaD "tale of Troy divine
Should l to hymn thy praise, sateler ode than mine
And what of young Columbia, Freedoms child,
What crime OF hers is borne upon the breeze!
The Western "Paas armed and undetiled,"
Is she yet stainless upon land and seas?
Yes! she obeys the Almighty high DEGREES,
And grows abundantly beneath His care,
Like the great monarch OF the Indian trees
Which spreads its props around, its weight to share,
And sends its branches high into the topmost air.
Still fell spirit is abroad to-day,
A blind tanaticism, which would wage
A war upon her rule, and cast away
The glorious promise of matufer age.
Forbear, rash zeaots, your gnobe rage
For he whose folly brings Disunion's train,
Shall stand upon future Gibbons page
The Erostratus OF ottier fame
Than EARTH throughout all time, shall ever again.
But hold, my Pegasus enough we've rode
Sur grand chepal, and now we'll simply try
In two more stanzas to complete our Ode,
perhaps we'll write another by and by
In this we've had Childe Harold i'm our eye,
That is-Weye sought to catch its music syren,
Until in eloquent despair we cry,
Alas, alas, what perils do environ
The fool who vainly strives to initiate Lord Byron
And now, may merrly your Christmas pass
To each and all ga happy New Year" 100
Your next will probably be lit with gas.
(You see we keep the city still in yiew1
And, gentle reader, are sure that you
Will not forget the CARRIER him. whose rhymes
We trust you've had the patience to read through:
Most hunby here he duplicates your dimes,
And hopes you'll always take tine DAILY RICHMOND
TIMES
*The priceless diamond of the Indies. which it has
been proposed to among the crown jewels OF Eng
land.