The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-08-11
For the Pioneer.
Poetry has Riz!

kinds of trash are now in demand. All
persons interested, are cited to a piece of
insipid dog5crel over the signature of
Jonathan, in a late number of the WEST
ern Missionary religious Journal pub
lished at Tifin City. .,
Never since the untimely death. Of the
author of that time honored distich com
mencing Wasn't Phoraoh rascal has
such an assault with intent &C. been per-
petrated upon the nine virgins.
Jonathan has read upon an honest
mans tomb, an epitaph selected from the
poetical illusions of one Robert Burns, and
thereupon processes to have indulged in
Reflections thing of which he is as
clearly capable as a chimpanzee would be
of demonstrating the pons osiaorum.
| give few random specimens of the
stuff which passes in this degenerate age
for pure HeN-iconian.
What pity that you thus could think and speak,
Is it not written; Blessed are the lowly and the
meek
The metre of the above is strikingly pc
culiar; but notice the concatenation Of
daetyles and spondees, the artistical hop
skip and jump, of feet, toes, and shins, in
the following couplet.
'The promise is of grace, and not works forsooth,
Alas! that you have lived so long and never
learned the trlth.'
Stick to that Jonathan; cultivate the
graces! for if not saved by grace your
chances in Kingdom come are not worth
rotten egg.
A few more of the same sort! only think
of disturbing the quiet Of the grave by such
an apostrophe as this
Infatuated man! what could have been
your creed when here below
"A universalist sorry-your neigh
bors told me so.'
I submit to all the candidates for the at
torney Generalship, if that last quoted
poetry is mt indctable under the statutes
against bodysnatching.
But seriously, I did not intend to cri-
tcise Jonathan's balderdash. My only
object is to expose the bigoted folly of an
ignoramus, who neither respects the feel
ings of the living or the repose of the dead,
and to add my unqualified endorsement,
to the legible terms in which he has writ
ten himself down "a colt, the foal of an ass
The mental colibre of the poh Il, can be
accurately determined frhm the pair of
lines which follow:
do christian reason thus when through
7 deaths gate they walk?
Do they indulge in boasting in doubt and
nigger-talk?'
in which he evidently mistakes Burns for
one of the Ethiopians. @
This scribbler. Of intolerable verse and
worse senseis undoubtedly one of those
pettifoggers of creed who bring re-
proach upon christianity by connecting it
with their own fanaticism, littleness and
illiberality. Jonathan like others of his
class, seems to regard it as duty keep
honest mon out of Heaven; probably from
a consciousness, that in any Heaven which
he could sneak into: an honest man would
be as much out of place, as in DR. Caius'
closet. s1s
And now to concludc:-My dear neuy:
l have not the slightest wish to infringe
upon the prescriptive rights of the fool
killer; nor do [ wish to check or curb your
genius in the least You are at perfect
liberty to write and print. There is no
law against numbering the peoples Eng
lish or manning poetical feet. Whenever
you have an itching which you suspect. to
be inspiration, first try corn-cobs and
birthstone; if the symptoms continue, se'en
write O Gods name, and send it to the
Missionary: but remember! that if you
don't keep out of our yards, truck
patches and chicken-coops you will GER
tainly hear again from your
'F.@ IS @ < UNCLE SAM.