The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-02-09
VOLUME XXlV~-F umber 10.
For the Ohio Star.
a Song of the age we Live in.

- For The OHIO Star.
Song of the Age We Live In.
like to sing the present age,
There's SO much to sing about;
The world is full of all things new,
And some things quite worn out.
1t is an age for going ahead,
And going backwards too,
For getting up aud getting down,
And sometimes Uery blue.
1t is an age for good fat living,
On mush and milk and pies and puddin,"
And more than all, some .'taters - too.
If good and sound and "haint got rotten"
1t ls an age for making cheese,
And butter good and yalIer;
For fatting pork, and keeping beeEes,
To clear the hide and talIow.
1t is an age for growing wool
To make our coats and trouses;
Fur the .razin down . Of Idlog huts,
And the raising up of pretty houses.
1t is an age for Yankee pies,
For apples, pears and "punkins,'
+ For s.sass and soop,' for sop and gravy,
And all that sort of fxins.
1t is an age for telegraphs
For reading thoughts on "lightuin
Away across this greut broad land,
In less than half t.twinklin."
1t is an age for Railroad Cars,
And believing locomotives,
For coaches four, and sulkies ono,
WheeIbaIows, Carts and Buses.
1t ID an age for digging gold
Way down in .Caiiforny."
Where few get rich, but many poor,
Thus ends the golden 's drama"
1t is au age for pens auG papers
For tracts and songs and hymns aud bibles,
For chat and talk for CAB and twtter,
With tongues that wear no brides.
1t is an age mucl, famed for talking,
Far more than 'tis for thinking,
But what's more strange than all the rest,
Some ladies' go .stumping-"
1t is an age for geat attractions
And little attractions loo,
The '.baniuals" now can all be seen
From s.heephant , down 10 {. kangaroo" :"
1t is an age for patent rights
Aud rights that have no patentee,
Some ratent wrongs, bat what's the Odds
4 r-;,. q.
1t is an age for drunkenness,
Then this TO man no greater bane,
The Devil fills the moral heart
And steals away the brain.
It is an age Of self illness,
AS cold as frozen zone,
Myself and myself only,
Bespeaks the heart Of stone.
1t is an age of wickednees,
OF every shade and hue;
We follow more that's vain and fIlse,
Than what is just aud true.
1t is an age of politics,
OF laws and Compromises,
A horde of office seekers too,
To eat the ioayes and fishes.
IL rs an age Of contradictions,
As strange as stsGnge can be,
Four million slaves, can tread on sod,
When It's proclaimed, ''aA men are free! !"
Tits an age like none before
Since the race of years began,
For one can now christian be,
And tread in dust his fellow man.
In an age three thousand years agoue,
Gods statutes did ordain;
The slave that from his master fees,
| Shall be returned not back again.
In ages past the Prophet said,
| ss Let the outcasts dwell with thee"
| Not 80, our modern soions say,
| Nc make the lac, beware its penalty.
This is an age for hunting, too,
| The like who ever saw;
Not hunting beasts, for sport,
| But hunting a,eR by taD.
And what an age for hunting uleu,
The present age may be;
If all good citizens obey.
That Lower Law Decree.
And what an age for southern Lords.
Who can, in all their grandeur
Bid their e northern hounds return,
Their wicked wandering niggers."
This is an age for all 10 vie,
To be the best man huuter,
The curse of God may be obtained,
: But S0tdn's ioo,cer IS surer.
The strangest thing this age can boast,
Is a preaching. praying people,
a serving God but with their lips,
{ And with their hearts the Devil.
a From, Frcser,s Magazine Eor Nope.a5e