Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-17

Osgood, will speak volume to You, which will
teach you to avoid the words ofidle, envous, cen.
suring
Gossiping:
A whisper woke the air
A"soft light tone and low,
Yet barb'd with shame and woe
Now, might it only perish there
Nor farther go.
All, me ! quick and eager ear
Caught up the meaning sound
Another voice has breathed it clear,
And so it wanders round,
From cor to lip-from lip to ear,
Until it reached gentle heart,
And that-it broke!
While dealing in gems Of poetry, We have all al
once bethought ourselves Of q piece of it, which
has been for several weeks on our table, patiently
biding its time and we hasten to send it out, with
a wager that the luxuriant Imagination Of o new
people never brought out production 80 poetical,
y put together as is this inventory Of the yegeta
BILE and humanity resources of the lone-star State!
Now, if We thought the author would thereby be
induced to make a business Of writing poetry, VIC
might not deal lenienly with him. We really have
no such fears, however; and We kindly give him
over to fame, without one single compunction Of
conscience. The poem came to us from
Away Here In Texas.
Away here in Texas, the bright, Sunny South
The cold storms of Winter defies,
The dark, lurid clouds that envelop the North
Seldom darken our beautiful skies.
Away here in Texas, the sun shines bright,
The stars in calm beauty appear,
The full moon in splendor illumines the night,
The seasons roll round tciM the gear!
Away here in Texas, We have beautiful flowers,
Peculiarly brilliant and gay;
The birds with their music beguile the dark hours,
And enchantingy sing all the day.
Away here in Texas, the whitecotton-felds
Are like plains that are covered with snow;
.1corns in abundance the teeming earth yields,
And oats most luxuriantly grow
Away here in Texas, potatoes do well
Tu,nips and cabbage Hherise!
Peas beans and melons all nature excel.
And pumphms obtain fair size!
Away here in Texas, we've grass very fine
We've "haws'' and we've also thesweet muscadine,
And berries, the "black" and the 'dew."
Away here in Texas, we've all sorts of game
That's found in the temperate cline;
We've wood on the hills and grass on the plains,
To shelter and fatten the kline.
Away here in Texas, we've all kinds of people,
From the gent and the belle to the slave
From the grand highfalutin' as tall as a steeple,
To the veriest droll and the knare.
Away here in Texas, the Doctors are poor,
They must either work hard, beg or steal;
The climates so healthy and charmingly pure,
Affections we scarce ever feel.
Away here in Texas, the Methodists thrive,
Presbyterians, the Old and the New,
And Baptists-all souls are engaged in the drive
The disciples of Campbell are few.
Away here in Texas, q stranger roam,
Unknown to all but few,
/ still live in hopes of far better home,
When take my last, parting adieu.
Away here in Texas, my journey shall end,
My body must rest in the ground,
But hope to arise and heaven-ward ascend,
When the last pealing trumpet shall sound!
Now for prosy item. 1t would be pleasant if
ladies would only think and by their actions ac-
knowledge, that the Difference which gentlemen
are want to pay to their sex, is matter Of cours-
sy rather than ofright. Because they do not thus
deem it, we have moro than once been made to
hang our head and blush for our countrywomen.
We have seen the beautyful tyrants enter the con-
cert-room, say take their way directly to the best
seat in the apartments plant themselves in front
Of biped who had perhaps come early to secure
it; and, looking daggers at him for not more
promptly yielding at the first dawning of their
presence, take his place without word, smile,
or look of fpeasantness, to reward the knight for
his service. Why, the semi-barbarous creatures
of the middle ages knew better than that, how to
act the lady and could they incarnate themselves,
would hesitate to own their sisters of the nineteenth
century! GouGH, the world-renounced temper
ance lecturer put these thoughts into head, by
the following paragraph of his on
Politencss i'm America.
"It was told me in England that it was necessa-
ry for lady who wished to travel through Eu-