The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-11

| 'eu.eaFraed-whoSe poems have
oeen published in collected form here, but not
| In ms own country-is beginning, at length, to
be talked of in England The excellent bumo-
rous poem which We publish, from his facile and
feliofsous hand, is among the choice moreeoyr in
Miss Mitford's work. The reader will find II
eAceedngiy graceful and amusing-H Journal.
Some years ago, ere Time and Taste
Had turned our parish topsy-turvy
When .Darnel Park was Darnel Waste
aga roads as little known as scuryy,
Inc man who lost his way between
81 Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket.
Was always shown across the Green,
And guided to the Parsons wicket.
Back few the bolt of lissom lath g"
Fair Margaret in her tidy kirtle a..
Leo the lorn traveller up the path, @
through cieap-clipt rows of box and myrtle :;
And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,
Upon the parlour-steps collected.
Wagged all their tails, and seemed to saw.
"Our master knows you; you're expected,
Up rose the Reverend Doctor Brown,
Up rose the Doctors "winsome marrow.n
The lady laid her itting down,
Her husband clasped his ponderous barrow.
Whate er the strangers caste or creed
Pundlt or Papist, saint or sinner,
He found a stable for his steed,
HeiCOuic nlInSe1 and dinner.
If, wien he reached his journeys end,
Ana warmed himself in court or college,
He had not gained an honest friend,
And twenty curious scraps of knowledge,
Ii he departed as he came, g..
With no new light on love or liquor,
GOOD sooth the traveller was to blame
Ana not the Vicarage or the Vicar
His tax was like a stream which runs
Wiz rapid change from rocks to roses;
1t slipped from politics to puns;
1t PASSED from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep .
Thf planets in their radiant courses
And ynding with some precept deep
Fof dressing eels or shoeing horses.
He wis a shrewd and sound divine,
Of loud dissent the mortal terror;
And ghen by dint of page and line,
HeistabHshed truth startled error,
The baptist found him far too deep;
Tbs Deist sighed with saving sorrow,
And tAe lean Levite went to sleep
And dreamt OF eating pork tomorrow.
His sermon never said or showed
That earth is foul, that heaven is gracious,
Without refreshment on the road
From Jerome or from Athanasius;
And sure a righteous zeal inspired
The hand and head that penned and planned
For all who understood admired Ithem.
<AHu SOine WHO ulu not understand t0el-
He did not think all mischief fair,
Although he had knack for Joking;
He did not make himself bear
Although he had taste for smoking
And when religious sects ran mad
He held, in spite of all his learning,
| That if mans belief is bad
| 1t viii not be improved by burning.
! And he was kind, and loved to sit
| In the low hut or garnshed cottage
And praise the farmers homely wit,
And share the widows homelier pottage
| AT his approach complaint grew mild,
! And wheu his hand unbarred the shutter,
! The elammy lips of fever smiled
The welcome that they could not utter.
| He always had tale for me
Of julius Caesar or of Venus;
From him learned the rule of three,
| Cats-crade, leap-frog, and Que genus:
l used to SINCE his powdered wig,
| To steal the staff he put such trust in,
And make the puppy dance a jig
| When he began to quote Augustine.
Alack the change. In vain look
For haunts in which my boyhood trifed;
| The level lawn, the trickling brook,
The trees l climbed, the beds l rifed!
The church is larger than before,
I You reach it by a carriage entry;
| 1t holds three hundred people more,
And pews are fitted for the gentry.
Sit in the Wears seat, you'll hear
! The doctrine of gentle Johnian;
| Whose hand is white, whose voice is clear,
! Whose tone is very Ciceronian.
| Where is the old man laid? Look down
| And construe the slab before you
| % Hic jacet Gulielmus Brown,
Vir nulla non donandus lauro."