Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-09
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BY W. u. PR4DE.
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HORACE.
Near small village in the West.
where many very worthy people
Eat, drink, play whist, and do their best
m 10 guard nom evil Church and Sseeple,
There stood-aas! it stands rs more!
teuement of brick plaster,
Of which, for forty years AMI four,
My good feiend Quince lord and uasterI
Welcome was he in hut and hall,
To maids aud matrons, peers and peasants,
He won the sympathes of all,
By making puns aud making presents;
Though all the parish was at strife,
He kept his counsel and his carriage
And laughed and lived quiet life,
And shrank from Chancery's suits and marriage.
Sound was his claret and his head,
Warm was his double ale and FEELINGS
Bis partners at the whist club said
That he was faultless in his dealings
He went to church but a week;
Yet Dr.. Poun text always found him
An upright man, who studied Greek,
And liked to see his friends around him.
Asylums Hospitals and schools
He used to swear were made to cozen;
All who subscribed to them were fools,
An / he subscribed to half dozen,
1t was his doctrine that tue poor
Were always able never willing;
Aud so the beggar at the door
Had first abuse, and then shilling.
Some public principles he had,
But was hatterer, nor fretter
He raped his box when things bad.
And said, I cannot make them better.n
And much he loatned the patriots snort
And much he scorned the piaceman's snrina
and cut the hercest qlarIes short
With" Patience gentleman, and shuttle"
For fall ten years his pointer Speed sa-
Had couched beneath his masters table; .a5
For twice ten years bis old VII te steed
Hed tatted in his masters stable
Old Ounce ayerred upon has trush f3E
They were the uglisst heas Is 10 Devon; Is
And none knew wh5 h I'D them b9tn,
With his own hsnds, six days ia seven
Eawhen Ter they heard his ring or Knock,
Quicker than thought the villat s!stterns
Flung down the uoYe, sIao9tbea the iroek,
And took up Mrs G1sse, and pstternsi
Adine was studying baler's bills;
Louisa looked the queen OF knitters;
Jane happened TO be hemnine frils; ~
And Bslib chance was mixing frtters.
But all in vain; and while decay
Came like Tranquil nooul ght DER him,
And found him equity still, and gay,
With no far to bless or bore him,
His rugged emile, and easy chair,
His dread of matrimonial lectures,
Biswig, his stick, his powdered hair,
We're themes for very STANCE coajsCtures.
Some sages thought the stars above
Had crsEed hin with excess OF knowedget
Some heard he had been crossed ia love-
Bsiore he cane assay from college;
Some darby hnted that his Grace
Did nothing, great or small, without hiu,
Bone whispered with solemn face 4
That there vas something odd about hin 1a
found him ct three score and ten
single man. bot bent quite double, AS
Sickness was coming on him then,
To take hun from world of trouble
he pTosed OF sliding down the hill SSH afH
Discovered he grew older daily
One frosty day he made his wilt
The next he sent for DR.. Bailey! "a
And so he lived and he died; .7ef
When last sat beside his pillow,
he shook his head. All me! he cried,
Penlope must the willow.
Tell her Rugged her rosy chain .4
While life was Pickering in the sockets
And say, that when call agao,
I'll bring license in my pocket
I've left my house and grounds to Fag--
Il hope his masters shoes will suit him;)
And I've bequesthed TO you my nag g"
To feed him for my sake-or shoot him. Hra5
The Vcat's wife wltake old fox
She'll find him uncommon n1ouser;
And let her husband have my box, -as
Ny bible and my Assmanshauser.
Whether ought to die e s.4s s.
My doctors cannot quite determine;
IT'S only clear that must rot i l4lf
And be- like AriaIn food for vfrmin. s
bly, debts paid;--but Natures debt
Almost escaped my recollection! .ea
Toni we shall meet again; and yet i5zs ne ieT
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