The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-03

.yy,tbout a,y visible mesns OF sapposts-
crime by no means hagrant
In one W no wears an elegant ceaS
A ragged fellow "vagrant'
A courtIy fellow was pspper Jim, On.
slesi ana supple, and tall and Trim,
And smooth Of tongue ss neat OF hmo'
As maugre his meaere pocket IL
You'd saw from the glitteripg tales he TOLD
That Jim bad slept in cradle OF goie'
With Fortanatus to tockh
Now Dapper jim, hi. courtship Piled
q wish the fact could be denied =, p,;aa ..
With an eye to the purse OF orc n We"
And really "nothins shorter
For he ssiS to himself, 10 his greedy lust,
He's sure 10 come down with us uuA
In behalf of his only daughter.
Ana III. vary magnificent Miss Mac Bride,
Half in love aud half in pride,
Ouite srsciously relepted!
And to,sinR her head, and turning her back
No token OF proper pride to lack
To be a Bride without the Mac"
with much disdain consented!
Alas! that people who've got their box
OF cash beneath the best of locks,
Secure from all financial shocks,
Should stock their fancy with fancy stocks,
And madly rush upon Wall street rocks,
Without the least apology
Alas that people whose money affairs
Are sound, beyond all need Of repairs,
Should ever tempt the bulls and bears
OF msmmon's fierce zoology!
Old John Mac Bride, one fatal day,
Became the unressting prey
OF Fortunes undertskers;
And stalking all on gle die,
His fouudered bark went high aud dry
Among the brokers and breakers!
At his trade again In the very shop
Where, years be fore he let it drop,
He follows his ancient calling
Chseriy, too, in poverty's spite,
And sleeping quite sound at night,
As when, at fortunes giddy height.
He used to wake with dizzy fright,
From dismal dream of falling.
But alas for he haug hty Miss Mac Bride.
'Tw as such shock to her precious pride
She couldn't recover, although she tired
Her jsded spirits to rally;
Twas dreadful change in human siaiTs
From places Uptown to a nook up stairs,
From an Avenue down to an Alley!
Twas little coincidence she bsd-God wot--
From her troops of friends" who hadn't forgot
The airs she used to borrow;
They had civil phrases enough; but yet
Twas plain to see their deepest re gret'
Was a different thing from sorrow
They own it couldn't have well been worse
To 60 from full to an empty purse
To expect "reversion," and get a reverse,
Was truly dismal feature
| But il wasn't IaHge-they whispered-at all
| That the Summer of Pride should have its fall
Was quite according to nature!
| And one of those who make pun,
| As if it were quite lesitmate fun
To be blazing away at every one/
With regular doubie-eaded gun
| Remarked that moral transgresson
| Always brings retributive stings
| To candle-makers. as well AS kings:
| For making light of cere0us things,
Wss very wicked profesSon!'
| And vulgar peope-the saucy ehuris-
/ Inquired about ''the price of Pearls"
| And moca'd st her situation;
| "She wasn't ruined'-they ventured to hope
| Because she was poor, she needn't NOPE
/ Few people were better of for soap,
And that was consolation
/ And to make her cup of woe run over,
Her eegsnt, ardent, plighted lover
/ Was the very first to forsake her;
"He quite regretted the atep, twas trus-
| The LADY had pride enough for two,
| But that alone would never do
Toquiet the butcher and baker,"
| And now the unhappy Miss Mac Bride
| The nerest ght st OF her early pride
Be~ais her lonely position;
Crsmp'd in the very narrowest niche,
Above the poor, and below the rich
Was ever worse condition?
MORAL.
Because you flourish In worldly affairs,
Don't be naughty and put on airs,
With insolent pride OF station
| Don't be proud and turn up your nose.
| But learn for the sake of your minds repose,
That wealths bubble that comeg-and goes.
And that all Proud Flesh wherever II grows,
Is subject TO irritation.