New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-05-07
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
NEW-YoRK IN SLICES.

~ me oNIGiNAI sLIcEE

by THE ORIGINAL sLIcEK
THE TWO UNIAINS
Know not how it is-bGt every S,rng
| feel sueeking wish for making rhymes
Perhaps it is because each living thing
Around me feels the influence Of the times
And breaks out into song and b.OssoniDg.
50, Pegasus, besiir your stUmps betmes.
Aud zee ii we can't stumble into meter.
As well as B ayard Taylor, Boxer, Street, or
Perhaps Ralph Hoyt, or Harry Hirst or any
Oftbose six thousand bards whom Df.1ns"oid
Hascra mined into the wrong end Of Fanes penny
Trumpet I'm sure that but tor him they
wbistled he
For Fame, not fame for them. And therefore, when
Gets no his next edition, be II be irizzled
And boiled and eaten. # we are omitted
Among the song birds u be fairly spltted.
So. now then for our epic What shall Z be ?
About George Washington, or Pocshontas,
Or Penn or Lafayette, or Commodore De-
Gator who m sde the Dey Of Algiers grant US
We don't know what. Or, let rs see
Since Testers tragedy failed % enchant Us,
Ia spite OF Aaron Burr being made the hero,
The Spirit OF 76' is down at zero.
So / must cen some humber flight essay,
Turning a city item into verse:
And here before this fountain let us stray
You'll find not many better and some worse
And as we watch it's rainbow child a, play,
Tod Sol, the father sent It here 70 nurse
Wen mediate upon the citys ways
And set the world % music as we gaze.
It's FIVE O'Clock and through the fiery du't,
Luminous with sunset darkly looms st. Paul
The Museum with It's monstrous pictures thrust
Into the eye Of day, fat boy and al
80 many folks are going IN, they must
Be apprehenslve that hen catch tall .i-
What display Of beasts, and birds, and giants!
Oh Barnum, what a man Oh humbug, what r.
science
Wonders the Astcr House, 80 celebrated
Az being the spot where Genrl Morris made his
Great joke-it was perhaps little antiqastedi
Aud not quite clear but then II pleased the ladies'
Who laughed vehemently-tit was 90 stated
By SIR. OTIS while the General LAID his
Hand 80 impressivcly upon his vest,
You knsr he d been INDUCING in jest
Close round the fountain under the brown trees,
Stretched on them benches which The Tribune
planted,
Loll three score oaiers loungiDg at their ease,
Nor needing those tired nurses who have panied
From Vesey street, TO get little breeze
See-yonder Amazon cool and undaunted,
Grabs loafer by the leg and sends him sprawhns,
Good God how horribly that brat is squailing
Sun, 'ErId and Trybune yere they swr 'Oh gas =
A penny air, TO buy loaf Of bread
Here pocket combs, a cent pair Alas
These people never use COmDe on the Head
What bout dar nigga Gin MS none yer Sass
Use for dc wife folks and she holds her head
sideways as If unused % smell a niger
She's black but she's a marketable figure
A burner and 'stuGer, hand III hand
Decked OFF in gorgeous vests aud hashy chains,
March slowly through the crowd, or idly stand,
Switching the spray with dainty little canes
A cOuntfyman has come - see the pond
He'll pay foil dearly for his curious pains
For ere the sun mas bd the world good en-
Both burnt and stuffed will be poor Johnny
Green.
See yonder veteran loaers-they have squatted,
For wears past ON these self same benches
holding
Them by preempton but perhaps thats not It,
At any rate each day secs them unfolding
Their dinner here-except when they We forgot IT.
Perhaps at home their wives are gwen to scold
ing
You'll find them snoOzing here all days and hours,
Except whone er It freezes, SHOWS OF shower
But lot US leave this scene aud on another,
Its very opposite, bestCw our glances
'Tis Union square, Though confess tvs rather
Oval than square.) See where the fountain
dances,
As II In ecstacy at this Spring weather, hances'
Which Thousand tol1 Us witchlng charms en-
Round the green border troops Of pautaletted
Girls laughing, dance as fairies never yet did
The grass is young and fresh, as in 'rtanias
Own garden walks, unsoiled by dust or travel
The walks are clean as IN old Pennsy lvanlas
Right angled capital, aud on the gravel lhis
Are placed some chairs, where one msy entertain
Gouty leg quietly, or cooy cavil
At all the ups aud downs Of this queer lie,
Which seems made up oil contrast and OF STRIFE.
Just over yonder by the Harlem track
Stands DR.. Comstock's sweet c0ftage orH(c
Alas, that Goldsmith should lodging sck,
While patent medicines thus are made to pay :
That Genus scarcely has a shirt 20 $ back,
While Humbug plants his palace 10y the way
Had | a panacca for gullibIhty,
oh precious public would you let me sell 1t ye
Around on either hand rise lordly mansions
With iretted cornces like frozen vines, slons
(They were MANFRED by several grand 'expRu-
In Wall street, climbing in vouptuous lines
Under the lofty caves aud round the stanchons,
Within " hose polished panes the sunlight shines
Blushng through rosy curtains while within
Hearts break and vows are broken spite OF TN.
But see the sun. like an upholsterer, hangs
His gsudiest fabrics IN the flaming sky
See ming to air his bed quilts ere he bangs
His bed room door aud blinks his fiery eye
In slumber. So my muses. labor pangs
Are finished You are glad Wei. so am /
Because. whate cr /, 'cds when was iresher,
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