Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-09-05
BY R0B'T. A. THOMPSON.
P0G GJ- RY.
ron ruE NEowRH COURIER.
A Parody


Z A Parody
on EDGAR a. PoE's RAVEN.
Once upon a midnight drcory, while / pondcrcd
weak and weary
Oyor many quaint and curious trick of mirtl
and childuke glce;
While Inoddcd nearly mapping, suddenly j heard
tapping,
Asof soft wings gently tapping, Tapping, buz-
zing like II bee
"'Ti3 some visitor that's tapping" said l. as [
turned to see
Thero hoy lookOd straight at mo.
All, distinctly I can sec him, and his bow and
arrows with him, tss.
And each glance he cast around him, fell like
sunshine DER the lea:
Eagerly wished the morrow; for my heart was
struck with SORROW,
And could not even borrow-borrow not on
any plea
One sweet moment from his glanccs for hc still
would look mt nc
And it stung me like bee!
And his lips of red all smiling, and his silkcn
wings all flying
Thiillod me-illcd me, with fantastic love-anCl
loss of liberty
So that now | still am thinking, and sad cir
cumstauces linking
That,hayc come from this boys pranking, with
my precious liberty
That have come fromliis cntrcating entrance on
his silly plen-e-
This it is thnt troubles me
After this, my soul grow brovcr, and good sense
began to wavcr:
"Chora,' said /, ''please forgive me- tor so long
neglecting thee, y4-
But the fact is I've been dreaming, till young
Cupid came i'll screaming,
And so brightly came he beaming that he c;ius-
ed my eyes to see
Chora, dearest girl, love you; will you not
sweet girl love me 2" sax
Then the girl said, "no stree"
Deep into sad fate rCpining, looked with my
red eyes whining,
laundering forth sighs that none hau dared but
But my winnings were unbrokcn, and of course
there was no token
And the only word there spoken, was that fated
'fno, sir-co'
This whispered and an echo smurmured back--
sad "no, stree"
Merely nqught, but no, sir-ee %
Back tuipedto books and learning, thus to
cure my soul of burning,
But ere long my heart uld hutrVr, some ching hur-
dor than before t.Af
"surrcly," said l. "ths Cupid working at my
heart so stupid; .
Let me look within my liver, and this mystery
explore
Let my heart he still a moment, till look with
i'll its core NN' HH Ht
'Tis young Cupid with his lovc.''
Opening shirt and vest like papor, when with
many wink mud capcr,
In me jumped young Cupid naughty--as he had
been there BEFORE tt -f
Not the least obcisance made he--not a-miputc
stopped or staid he, e.. s
But with countcuance of wizard, perchod upon
my heart so sore
Pcrched upon my broken gizzarl, just above the
place he tore
Perchcd and clawcd and nothing more!
Then this naughty boy beguiling my sad fancy
into smiling,
BY the wickcdnossand humor ftho countenancc
he wore,
"sThough thy form is always naked, I" though /
said, cart sure sound pated,"
Pretty, smart, and wicked Cupid, wandering
from bright Hyncn's shore:
Tell me whatmy next girls name is-who the
next one Pm to love-"
ouoth young Cupid, many moreH'
Thus again in melancholy was launched by
-. love and folly, 80 e.
And worshippcj with knee bendod to my
sweet young Eulalee. a
AS bowed with pulses hushing, contemplating
beauty blushing-
From my heart bright love all gushing, asked
All II heart with bright love gushing, for my
sweet young Eulalcc
Quoth Miss Eula, emo, stree"
But her shade now sitting lonely in my rockipg-
chair, speaks only
This one word; MS ifher soul in this one word
she would outpour. Is
Nothing farther then she euttersy non n silken
flounco she lutters-- 1870
Till scarcely morei ihon mutter, .'othcroborms
have flown before
On the morrow she will leave me as my love has
changed before" se
Then the girl said, t'noYermge.s
startledat the stiffness broken by reply SO sad
ly spokcn; as1
- Doubtless, said1, t'what shoutscrs she has
III thus been tefight to whine, a,,{ &C.
by old maid with. form uneomcly, and a face
uncommon homely--
Who had tried and failed most sadly, to catch
one ofS@ea mankind,
Thlthe wahinga other song assumed that rhel7
ancholy whine, Ef Hs
.st os Qfnary nary time }.>
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