Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-03-02

ooh loveIiest Of the human kind,
NV precious spouse Eliza
No mortal tongue can tell how much
Thy husbands love doth prize her.
What pity the uxorious poet could mt prize" out
of his brain better beginning. But we suppose he
thinks the change Of pronoun in the last line is amply
compensated for by the next verse, in which he flies
off thus:
In the far desert or the sea
Though should c'er be stranded
I'll think myself, if but with thee,
In bssful Eden landed"
Well really that is sublime-far above all comment.
So we pass on to another verse, which improves upon
the foregong'one as follows:
"I'd sink into the ocean deep,
Care not if neer they found me,
So could know that thy sweet arms
In love were locked around me-"
Only see how the fellow " throws himself away
MS he grows warmer upon the engrossng theme of his
devotion Verify Sappho was nothing 10 this enthi-
saslic JERRY" lie surely must he right in the
middle of the Honeymoon. But hear him once more.
sl' tend thee on through good and I'LL
Like some swcet-scented flower
When er cease 10 do il well,
Then blasted be the hour! J"
Confuund the fellow! take hin ont and kill him.
eTend' the mischief! You would do much better to
60 and Sc tcnd your corn field your garden that
yonmay be certain Of some bread and tatcrs against
the time when you will have set of sqnalling ba.
hics around YOU But enough Of our amorous Bcne-
dict-Let us turn 10 another kitten'' and obtcrve
how he " cries new"
The signature stuck on 10 the production we arc
now about to notice is "ASrISous," from which ii
would appear that the author is somewhat classical as
well as sentimental in his tastes. The apposleness
Of the '' nom de plume" we unable 10 discover
unless it be that Annous of old sacraced himself on
account of q man, while this modern ANTISoUs" is
realty to do the same thing for 4 woman. With this
slight sranng of the genders. it may pass 1t seems
that the beloved object of our poets affections is Civ.
ing him the " cold shoulder" just at this time, which
will account for the strange ntermi1ture of reproach
es. oaths AMI vows exhibited in his ode. The meas
ure seems to be an alienation Of the Sapphic and
Adonic And thus it goes:
sThou, who vast late so kind to me,
Poor slave of thy beauty
Hear me once more, whilc swearing 10 thee
Loves ccasehss dpiyE
care all The bright charms of Il truthful Ksart,
(Which have thought thinel
About 10 take wings and forever depart
From this ruin'd shrine!"
We are compelled by an overcoming sense Of both
craiion stop here and ark oursef and each reader
the question, "whai can be meant by 'this ruined
shrne!'" 1t may be that auson is had to some i'm
aginary altar which the lover las erected, in some
secluded groto of Fancys realm, for the worship Of
this dear, inconstant one. Or, this Interpretation
involves rather outrageous poetcaI license, would
perhaps be fairer TO suppose that he meant his own
heart. 1.-THE latter he should have written preface
TO his efiison, particularly requesting every one to
imagine that, AT the fourth line Of his second verse,
the right hand of The writer is placed upon his left
breast while his eyes upturned 10 high heaven,
much as 10 say,
This heart Of mine
Is the rrined shrine
Taking it for granted then that this is the proper
explanation of this difficulty, let 60 with
few more verses:
ooh list, maiden, list and hear me VOW
That. for thee, thee only
My soul's in bright blaze oflove-And now
Wilt thou leave ME lonely!
There now, he has fairly cas-, himscfn,o purgatory.
His very soul has been IN bright blaze" now for
nearly week, according to, his own account. (The
piece is dated Feb 90, 1889 Poor man if That soul
Of his be material, maintain, it must be we'll
nigh burnt to n cinder by this time. But hear him
again in his last verse:
'' Brit whether meet with thy love or scorn,
Oh let me assure thee,
This unchanging bosom. though tntter'd and torn
Will ever adore thee"
"Ta,tcr'd and torn,'' quoll he Those terms wonld
certainly be appropriate to the man, shirt bosom
than to his bosom of flesh and blood. We grant how.
that it is perfectly legitimate 10 employ these par
ticiples in fguralivc senre, especially when they
seem to be taken from proHimate the
outer covering Of his inundated breast. Poor I" An.
tnous!' your fair Delilah has buichcred You, and in
return, YOU iare buichercd the Muse of Poesy. You
are very spirited Icarus. Why did mt you rear
up your Pegasus pitch in,o' the false one, whirl
around forthwith and seek another! That's the way
to serve them.
OF the third piece we have room 10 say nothing,
except that strikes being very badly executed
theft from very original. The original
color of The fair nymphs" hair was brown. But the
copyist, rreferring truth to rhyme, has substituted
black" thereby matching the CROWN of The next
line most euphoniously. Here is the piece:
TO MISS MARY C. -.
There is n beauteous little dame,
Catherine is this nymph's name;
She has eyes like some young fawn's,
Tripping wild DER Southern lawns.
She has little snowy hands,
Like white lilies twined in bands,
She has ringets richly black;
Lovclier than jeweled crown.
She is witty, young, and wild;
Playful rs little chilli,
Beauty, goodness, wit, combine
To make little T.. divine.
If the authors of the above-ashed scrawls had sent
along their names we should have done nothing more
than excluded their trash. Not having them, we
have exercised privilege Of Publishing for the pub
lie amusement
Ericsson S Caloric Ship.
THIS vessel is SAID to be beautiful piece Of work
manship 1t is $50 feet long and has TWO eng ines OF
500 horse power each, without boilers, air-pumps or
condensers. In the application Of the new patent
caloric force there is said TO be danger whatever.
1t requires only one.tenh of the fuel consumed by
steamers of the same power. An experimental trip
has been made by Ericssons ship, in which she ac-
complished fourteen miles to The hour with ebb-tde
and fair wind,-ten miles against wind and tide. !