Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-31
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tossed TO and fro tothcr night on my bed
With puzzled brain and sad aching head,
Thinking out an address for my patrons 50 dear,
Half trembling with hope, half quaking with fear,
tried forty themes, first one then another;
But every one proved only common place pothcr.
thought of the markets the schools & the weather.
But they all seemed orun ntohotch-potch together
Then tried for the ladies to grind out rhyme,
God bless dear crcatures!twas spending oftime;
No thing could l say, but had been said before,
BY scribblcrs and rhymers a thousand OF more.
next turned me to politics, but twas so sad
So little to cheer me or make me feel glad,
It's yisagc with fraud aud deception so Scared;
With wrongoud oppression so blighted and niaffod,
So bcgrimcd and distorted With passion and pride,
So untrue to itsclf--I soon turned me aside.
Aye, turned me aside from the heart-sickning sight
Twas fearful and dark as n storm Of the night.
To find an original thought was the thing;
So my muse fitted on till she wcaried her wing.
Not thought could she find but was worn out &old
Nota song could she sing but was chcerles5and cold,
Desponding, exhausted she laid down to weep
At her pitiful fate and we both fell asleep.
dreamed that my childhood had fitted away,
My youth too was gone with its warm summer day;
My manhood was passing into it's scar leaf
Its harvest all gathered in bright golden sheaf;
And stood an old man with gray hairs on my head,
On the ladder of time sixty rounds up, trow.
The words nineteen hundred, were easily read
On the azure blue Aag that waved over my head,
And populous city spread out at my feet
Where businessand pleasure made gay every street.
The country around was bright fairy land
Full of fhedge &gardens and mansions so grand
Light rail cars went whizzing with markctingr
An old lumber wagon no where to be found.
While the passengers laughing & free from all care
Sailed round in a gondola, borne on the air.
Every thing looked so brilliant, so cheerful gay
That asked of an urchin just passing that way,
"What city is thisl" Quick he answered with gloe
at is SALEM, dear sir, what else should it bet"
sighed as thought DER the years had slept,
And, but for the brlliance around me, had wept.
''But," said |, "my good boy if it be not task,
The news of the day, l most humbly would ask.
''No task he exclaimed 'boysare now adays taught
To respect and be kind to old age as they ought,
And since you'ra stranger, I'll tell all know,
New Years will more lightly and checrfully go,
For to do u good action adds zcst to our play
And we fail not to DO it as oft as we may.
The news from old Europe long years since came
Ger,
Not q King or a queen could be found on her Shore
True Democracy governs and rules in their stead;
The poor all have homes and plenty of bread.
In our own happy country there's naught but free
toll,
Not the foot of slave leaves it's mark on our soil
Human Rights are acknowledged & all arc now free
No matter what sect, sex or color they be.
Since Woman helps rule, the dark ages arc DER,
War, Slavery, Intcmpenncc, triumph no more;
And the wonder is new that men so long could
Have kept from their councils these wise ones and
good.
The law that VIC live by is, love one another,
And treat every one as friend and brother.
Every pays his debts, every spcaksthe truth,
Youth bows to oldogc and oldagc smiles on youth.
7 uc NoluS HiHt anu UttHc uOl lCuIu any
They belong to the crazy old English of yore,
But peace, love and charity hard and hand come,
And love waves his rose colorcd wing o'ercach home
Ohio led off in this holy communion,
She now number one in the states of the Union,
And the Union no longer in danger is found;
Equal rights unto all keep it all safe and sound.
Just then an air vessel came booming along,
And the engineer tuned up his whistle 50 strong
And on great fiddle that went all by steam,
He played Yankee Doodleand broke up my dream
| awokc with bound and to writing flew,
In hopes to preserve it, dear patrons, foryou;
Itsbrilancc fear, has been dmed by myrhymes,
Please silver it DER fer my sake, with your dimes
Heavens blessings on each and long life of joy,
] To &c n, L..