Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-05-13


D%The following felicitous ARA,
grievances, from an old Magazine,
reach tender chord in the bosoms
many victimized book-lenders. We WI
fain hope it might touch the hearts Of
miserable, sinful book-keepers, and ind
them to bring forth works meet for rel
tance-go, and sin no more !-Le~is6
Chronicle.
It's hard, when those who do not wish
To lerd, that's losc,) their books,
Are shared by snglers-folks that dsh
With literary hooks;
Who call and get some favorits tome,
But never read il through;
(They thus complete their get" At home,
by making one at you'll
Just see that book shelf Of Ounce
Who borrows-Dever lends;
fon work, in twenty volumes, once
Belonged to twenty friends.
New tales and novels you may shut
From view-but all in vain;
They're eOnel aud though the leaves are "eut, "
They never "cou,e again"
For pamphlets, too, l look around,
FOR tracts my tears are split;
And when they take book that's bound,
Its surely cxtragi.t
circulating library
Is mne-ny birds are flown;
There's one odi-volumc Left to b
Like all the res., alone.
l, Of my Spenser quite bcrcft,
LAST winter sorc was shaken;
Cf Lamb I've bat quarter left,
Nor could save nv Bacon.
Ny H1H and Hill were lsveled fat,
Yet Moore was still the cry;
And then, although threw them .StTat
They swallowed up my Pye.
Der everything, however slight
They seized some airy trammel;
They snatched my IL 50 and Ft1 one night,
And Pocketed my CampbeH.
And then saw my Cra5Se, At last.
Like Haialct's, backward go;
And as my tide was ebbiug fast
Of course lost my Roive.
wondered into what balloon
My books their course had bcnt;
And yet, with all my marycIing, soon
fund my Hur,! went
Ny M,Hct served to knock me down,
Which makes inc thus a talker;
And once, when was out CT town,
My johnson proved q Walker.
While studying DER the fire ono day
My H,tbes, amidst the smoke,
They lore my to.mGn clean away,
And carried of my C5kc.
They picked my Locse, to me far mora
Than Brahuian's patents worth;
And now nv losses drplore
Without Home on earth.
If once a book you let them lift,
Another they conceal;
For though caught them stealing SHi6,
As swiftly went my Steele.
Hope is not now upon the shelf
Where late he stood elatei;
And stranger still, my Pope himself
Is excommunicated.
My little Sucking in tho gravo
q. sunni, ~ sw'tA saso ss,e~s.
Aud what twas Crusoc's Ea.s to ave,
Twas mine to los--a SdraQe.
Even Clorer's works ] can not put
My frozen hands upon;
Though, ever since lost my Fbote,
Ny BHnydn has been gone.
And Hoyl> with Cotton went-oppresscd,
Our Tuyl0r too did fail;
To save my CoIdsmith from arrest,
In vain I offered Bayte.
Prior sought, but could not SEQ
The Hood 30 late in front;
And when turned to hunt for Lea,
Oh. whore was my Leigh HantS
tried to laugh old Care to tickle,
Yet could not Ttckeu touch;
And then, alack missed my Mickie,
And surely mickle g much.
It's quite enough my griefs to feed,
Ny sorrows to cxcuse,
To think can not read my Reid,
Nor even use my Hughes.
To West, to South, turn my hsad,
Exposed alike to odd cheers;
For since my Roger AschdM's fed,
ask in vain for Rogers.
There's sure an Eye that marks as wsll
The blossom the sparrow;
Unseen by me, my Lilly f"ll,
Twas taken in my BlrroU.
They took my Horne, and Horne 7aoss too,
And thus my treasures fit;
! fear, when l would Hdziia view,
Tie flames that it has lit.
Ny words worth little, Wordsworth gone,
If survive its doom;
How many a bard doated on
Was swept off with my Broome.
Ny classics would not quiet lie,
thing so fDndly hoqed;
Like Doctor Primrose, may CRY,
My Liry has eoped."
Ny life is wasting fast away
l suffer from these shocksi
And though Pve fixed q lock ON Crdy,
There's grey upon my locks.
I'm far from Toung-am growing palo-
see my Bstiey fly;
And when they ask about ny AL
"'ris BaTtonr' reply.
They still have made me slight returns,
And thus my griefs divide
They have removed from me my BNrns-
have no Aksnsitie.
But all think / shall not say,
Nor let my anger burn;
For as they never found me Gay,
They have not left me S<rYH. B.