Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-07-10

nonOr sucn caro- as fhlS,
Said he and scolded, frowned q pouted
And sharply he the Roswell houted,
Who wished the favor might be done.
10 please tie dame, whose fine youo
| son,
Was christened Ros,OeN, jus, hoax,
Folks said il was The best of jokes.
But Roswell vowed III would not do
TO slight the dame and supper too"
So, forth they went al close Of day,
As only priests and Doctors may
Enter al Prince and peasants call.
The hoyel or the palace hall.
''Perverse mankind whose wills, created
free,
Charge all their a0oeS on absolute decree
All TO the booming Gods, their guilt trans
late,
And foNies are misscalled, The crimes o
fate"
If folks act freely now as Eve before the
fall,
TIen wherefore Collins, did you 90 al all!
Nov pray dear sir, be not afraid"
Said Roswell" nor be thou dnmsyed;
The Dame loves parsons and divinity"
Because of force ofnatural affinity.
The three drew near, as said before,
And met old Gaffier at his door.
Who straighhy led them one AMI all
Into the Gammer's great state hall.
The entrees made the Gammer greeted
And Collins thought the farce completed.
Was ever such Salmagundi
Or super human flesh and human fungi
Had lrving's dreamy eye" bu, kened il
Ye muses. but he would have pened it.
Each one filled up rocking chair
And gazed about with easy stare
On pictured walls Of dogs and kittens
And puss dressed out in yellow mil,ens.
Some other pictures hung above
Roswell and Cupid Gods of love
nd JUS. beneath, blidsi scene,
And bed all droped with curtained screen
And in it, two large figures lay,
But who they were, We canno, say.
Silence there reigned deep and profound,
No whispered note, or sigh. or sound
Nor crickeis chirped within The space
Pulsalion seemed TO flee the place
And Gaffier sal in solemn stale:
Grown thoughtful in his mood Of late,
His yisage wore a rare compound
.Of wounded rrlde and reason SOUND
The heart seemed broken bu, the sense
Was cauterized by Indifference.
For looks more stnical na'ei fnnnd
A place above the solid ground.
Portentious silence,in that hour
Some things grew less causlic and sour
No lecfu,ing within that door
Was snrh thing ere known before {!
Old Gaffier felt Joyous thrill,
The mill and Gammer's tongue both still
Ye, bliss is but short lived Thing
Nor fingers long, with folded wing,
The dame soon breaks the Heavenly spell
A thing she understands full well.
Now rising like very storm
She sings out "dear, but il is warm"
An urchin next she scolds, then fa.lers
Then guide mans fame with praise be
spatters.
A pin she next adjusts TO please,
Or give 10 lilIe Roswell ease
And drives. puss down from off the form.
And, like ihe duke Of thunder storms
Skips quite across the grea, hall floor,
Ye Graces, could ye three do more1
And through the voluble partition
Vanished this lusty sparinon.
The Rosw threw The dame an eve,
Whilst Collins drew heavy sigh.
Professor, all the while seemed pressing
Now thought of Euclid now of doing,
Me,onymes now 6ll his mind,
And now old things, of every kind,
Hebraic greek, and versions next,
And lastly takes hebrew text,
And feasis his mind on beauties rare,
Of holy writ No mesgre fare.
Views man as when he first was seen
OF noble mind. and lordly mein,
His makers immage was his soul,
A moral grandeur decked the whole.
"An eagle in its pride OF flight
Hawked at and Gu, down by an owl,
In degradation made TO bite
The dus, by envious demons foul,
But now a brute devoid Of mind
The basest Of the baser kind.
Denounciug folly with Jove's thunder,
Making the gaping idiots wonder.
A change came Ger the spirit OF his dream
His eye assumes brighter purer beam
To science fair his thoughts seem now
inclined
The laws Of matter scan, with those of
mind,
The various properties of light
Its. brillish, radiency of white,
The emblem fair, OF all we prize