Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-09-18

BENEATH the marble, mud or moss,
Whichever his subjects shall determine,
Eniombed in euloges and dross,
The Island King is food for vermin
Prisoned BY scribblers and by salt.
From Lelhe and sepulchral vapors,
His body fills his faiher's vault,
His character the daily papers.
Well was he famed for royal seat
Kind 10 the meanest of his creatures,
With tender heart and tender feet
And open purse, aud open features;
The ladies say who laid him out,
And earned thereby the usual pensions.
They never wreathed shroud about
A corpse of more genteel dimensions.
He warred with half score of foes,
And shone-by proxy-in the quarrel;
Enjoyed hard fights and soft repose,
And deathless debt, and dealhless laurel:
His enemies were scalped and Aayed,
Wheneer his soldiers were victorious
And widows wept and paupers paid,
To make their Sovereign Ruler glorious.
And days were set apart for thanks,
And prayers were read by pious readers;
Laurel was lavished on the ranks,
Aud laud was lavished on their leaders;
Events are writ by Hisory's pen;
Though causes are too much 10 care for
Fame talks about the where and when,
While folly asks the why and wherefore.
In peace he was immensely gay,
And indeiatigably busy;
Preparing gew-gaws every day,
Aud shows to make his subjects dizzy;
And hearing :he report of guns,
And signing the reports of jalors,
And making up receipts for buns,
And patterns for the army iailois;
And building carriages and boats,
And streets, and chapels, and pavllions,
And regulating all the coats,
And all the principles OF millions;
And drinking homilies and gin,
And chewing pork and aduaion,
And looking backwards upon sin,
And looking forward to salvation.
The people in his happy reign,
Were blest beyond all other nationsj
Unharmed by foreign axe or chain,
Unheaed by civil innovations;
They served the usual logs and stones,
With all the usual rights and terIors;
And swallowed all their fathers bones,
And swallowed all their fathers erTors.*
When the fierce mob, with clubs and knives,
All vowed that nothing should content
them,
But that their representatives
Should actually represent them;
He interposed the proper checks,
By sending troops with drums and banners,
To cut short speeches, and their necks;
And break their heads, 10 mend their man.
ners.
And when Dissension flung her stain
Upon the light of Hymen's alter,
And destiny made Cupid's chain
As calling as the hangman's halter;
He passed a most domestic lie,
BY many mislresses befTiended,
And did not put away his wife
For fear the Priest should be offended
And thus at last he sunk 10 rest
Amid the blessings of his people;
And sighs were heard from every breast,
And bells were tolleG from every steepe,
And loud was every public throng
His brilliant character adornng,
And poets raised a mourning song,
And clo,hers raised the price oil mourning
His funeral was very grand; -
Followed by many robes and maces,
And all the great ones of the land,
Struggling as heretofore for places
And every loyal Minister
Was there with signs Of purse-feit sorrow
Save Pozzy, his lord chancellor,
Who promised 10 attend Tomorrow
Peace 10 his dust his fostering care
By greatiul hearts shall long be cherished
And all his subjects shall declare
They lost grinder when he perlshed
They who shall look upon the lead, -.
In which peoples love hath shrined HIM
Shall say, when all the worst is said,
Perhaps he leaves a worse behind him!
In the Sandwich Islands, no greater marx oi respec
can be paid the parent by the son. than the swallow
ing of part of his mortal remains More civilized nation
are content with the prejudices.
I When a native OF the Sandwich Islands is weary
his first spouse he may bring home another but he ma
not divorce his original chosen consot.
When the Sovereign of the Sandwich Island ole
each of the subjects shows his respect for the decease
Prince, by extracting valuable tooth from his head