Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-08-09
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Polyphemus and Ulysses.
A CLASSICAL STORY-Dv JEENs.

very remarkable history tnis IS
OF old PoLYrHEMUs and Mr.. ULYSSES
The latter hero accomplished and bold,
The former a knave and fright to be-
hod,-
A horrid big giant who lived in den,
And dined, every day, on a couple OF men,
Ate woman for breakfast, and dreadful to
see y
Had nice little baby served up with his
tea
Indeed, if there's truth in the sprigh,iy rat.
ration
OF HoMEa, poet Of some reputation,
Of VIRGIL, a writer but little inferior,
And in some things, perhaps, the others
PoLYPHEMUs was truly terrible creature
In manners and morals, in form and in
feature
For law and religion he cared not copper,
And in short led a life that was very I'M
proper J.
What made him a very remarkable guy,
like the late Mr.. THOMPSON, he'd only one
eye;
But that was a whopper-a terrible one
Gas large VIRGIL says) as the disk oil the
sun !"
A brilliant but rather extravagant figure,
Which means, suppose, that his eye was
much bigger,
Than yours-or even the orb OF your sly
Old bachelor.friend who's "wite III his
eye."
ULYSSES, the hero mentioned before,
Was shipwrecked, one day, on The pesilent
shore,
= Where the CYcLors resided, along with
their chief,
roLYPHEMus, that terrible man eating
Whose manners they copied, and laws they
obeyed,
While driving on their horrible cannibal
trade.
With many expressions of civil regret
That ULYSSES had got so unpleasan,y wet
With many expressions of pleasure pro-
That all had escaped being thoroughly
drowned
The rascal declared he was "fond of the
brave"
Aud invited the strangers all home to his
cave.
Here the cannihal king, with as little re.
morse,
AS an omnibua feels for the death of
horse,
Siezed, crushed, and devoured brace of
the Greeks
Asa Welshman would swallow couple of
leeks,
Or a Frenchman, supplied with his usual
prog,
Would punish the hams of favoriie frog,
Dashed and smashed against the stones,
He broke their bodies and cracked their
bones,
Winding no more their moans and groans
Than the grinder heeds his organs tones
With purple gore the pavement swims,
While the giant crushes their cracking
limbs,
And poor ULYSSES ,rembes with fright
At the horrid sound, and the horrid sight,
Trembles lest the monster grim
Should make his "nuts and raisins" OF
him
And, really, since
The man was Prince,
It's not very odd that his highness should
vince,
Especially after such very strong hints,)
At the cannibaps manner, as rather more
Than his Hghness, at court, was accus,om.
ed 10 see -
Blu, the crafty Greek, TO the tyrants hurt,
(rhough he didn't deserve SO fine de.
sert,)
Took dozen Of wine from hi. leather
trunk,
And piled the giant until he was drunk =
nrunker than any one you or know,
Who buys his "Rhensh" with ready rhi.
no.
Exceeding drunk-"sepultw rino
Gazing moment upon the sleeper,
Ulysses cried, "Leis spoil his peeper
Twill put him, my boys, in pretty
II we can manage TO douse his glim ~
So taking spar that was lying in sight
They poked it into his ''forwari light"
And gonged away with furious spite,
Ramming and jamming with all ,heir
might
In vain the giant began 10 roar,
Aud even swore
That he never before
Had met, in his life, such terrible bore,
They only piled the auger the more,
And Knocked his grief with the ban,ering
cry,
"Don't talk of pain-it's all an your eye :"
Until, alas for the wretched CYcLoPs,
He gives groan, and out his eye pops!
Leaving the knave, one needn't be told,
AS blind as puppy of three days old
The rest of the tale | can't tell now
Except that ULYSSES got out of the row,
With the rest Of his crew.-il's 10 matter
how
While old PoLvpnrMus, until he was
dead -
Which wasn't till many years after, It's
said,-
Had grief in his heart and a hole in hi.
head
MORAL.
Don't use strong drink, pray lie, me ad
yise,-
It's bad for the stomach, and ruins tn,
eyes;
Dom, impose upon sailors with land-lubbe
tricks,
Or you'll catch i, some day, like ,hou.an,
OF bricks
"JEEMs, my lad, keep away from the girl
Ven you see one coming, dodge. Jes sicl
a criuer as that Young un, cleanen' the doc