The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-07-17

In a style, to be sure, of remarkable fullness,
But which nobody reads on account of its dullness
Young PETER PYRAMUs-I call him Peter"
Not for the sake of rhyme or metre,
But merely to make the name completer-
For Pyramus lived in the olden times
And in one of the worst of Pagan chimes,
T hat flourish now in classic fame
Long before
Either noble or boor
Had such a thing as a Christian name
Young Peter then was a nice young beau
AS any young lady would wish to know;
In years | ween
He was rather green,
That is to say he was just eighteen,
A little too short, and trife too lean,
But fine Young man as ever was seen,
And fit to dance with May day queen.
And Peter Pyramus fell in love
With a pretty maiden-the called her his dove
A little Miss THIsBE, who liv'd next door
CThey slept in fact on the very same floor,
With wall between them and nothing more
Those double houses were common OF yore-)
And they lov'd one another, the legends say,
In that very bountiful, beautiful way
That every young maid
And every young blnde
Are wont to love before they grow staid,
And learn 10 love BY the laws of trade;
But alack -a-day for fhe girl and boy,
a little accident checked their JOY
And gave them, awhile, the deepest annoy:
For some good reason, which history cloaks,
The match didn't happen to suit the old folks
SO finishes father, and Peters mother
Began the couple to worry and bother,
And tried their innocent passion to smother
By keeping the lovers from seeiag each other
But who ever heard
OF marriage deferred
Or even deferred,
By anv continuance so very absurd,
Al scolding the boy. and caging his bird
But Peter who wasn't discouraged at all
Bv obstacles such as the timid appal-
Conirivcd 70 discover hole i'll the wall,
Which wasn't so thick,
But removing a brick
Male pessage-tho' rather provokngly small
Through this little chink the lover could greet her
Aud secrecy made their counting the sweeter,
WmiePeier kissed Thsbe and Thisbe kiss d Peter
For kisses. like folks with diminutive souls,
,Will manage to creep thro the smallest of holes
L was here that the lovers. intent upon love,
Laid nice little plot
To meet at spot
Near muberry-tree in a neighboring grove
For the plan was all laid
By the youth and the maid,
Whose hearts, it would seem, were uneommonly
hold ones)
To run of and get married in spite of the old ones
In the shadows of evening, as still as mouse,
The beautiful maiden slipt out of the house,
The mulberry-tree impatient to find,
While Peter the vigiant matrons to blind,
Strolled leisurely out some minutes behind.
While waiting alone by the TRUSTING tree,
A terrible lion
AS e'er YOU set eye on,
Came roaming along, quite horrid to see
And caused the young maiden in terror TO nee
"A lion s creature whose regular trade IS
Blood-and "a terrible thing among the ladies
Rut losing her veil as she ran from the wood,
The monster bedabbled it over with blood.
Now Peter arriving, and seeing the veil
All sprinkled DER,
And rocking with gore,
Turn'd all of a sudden, exceedingly pale,
And sat himself down 10 weep and 10 wall
For soon as he saw the garment poor Peter
Made up his mind in very short metre,
That Thisbe was dead, and the lion had cat her
So breathing prayer,
He determined to share
The fate of his Thisbe, {" the loved and the lost,
And fell on his sword and gave up the ghost
Now Thisbe returning and viewing her beau,
Living dead, by the veil (which she happened t.
know:
She guessed in a mo1nent the cause of his erring
And Selling the knife
That had taken his life,
In less than 4 jify was dead as herring
Young gentlemen! pray recollect if you please
Not to make designations near mulberry trees
Should your mistress be missing, it's very Ill bre
To be stabbing yourself till you know she is dead
Young ladies You should MT 90 strolling abou
When your anxious mamas don't know you're out
And remember that accidents often befall
From kissing Young fellows thro holes in the wall
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