Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-07-10
A Book for Sun inner.

AQUARELLEs OR, SUMNER SKETCHES. By
Delisser.
The above is n small volume Of sketches in
verse; in which the author satirizes the vices
and folies of the age, particularly those
phases of them exhibited at certain fashiona-
bic watering places. The Flora McFlimseys,
and their colleagues of the sterner sex. are
excoriated with unmerciful severity. To give
the reader taste of the authors quality, we
embodying the reflections, at Newport, Of
JONES,
"a melancholy Jaques, he,
Whose ever wont and love il view
All things of earth as in darksome light"
II his reflections be not all truth, there is
enough of that commodity in them to season
what is doubtful:
This place and all the worlds Masquerade,
Where you, and l. and all the rest arfayed
In borrowed guise, perform motley part
Our mission cheating and our life an art
We all wear masks-and no one dare dspace
This vile disguise now common L. the race
The pge requires it-and the age, We know,
Is ditcdys Tight-at least, we think II 10.
50, ON life = stage, IN terror and IN doubt,
Doceiving and deceived We move about
Each one IN turn, the comedy recItes,
A world Of actors, and of hypocTitesl
In greater things or less, Z rs all the same,
Deception is the rule--the choicest aim
Each uue, deceived, seeks others To mlsguidc.
And masks are changed, but never laid aside
Strange that the more in knowledge we progress,
Ia candor and sincerity, the less =
Strange that none dare with Truth and Virtue deal,
Unless they be too shallow 10 conceal
Strange tiiat while Wisdom Error rules,
PeTdcty 5 Tho prtriiege u fools
In barbarous people vice and wrong nnd
More pllpsbe, because the less refined
There, each shows biunty what he hates or likes,
Ana each, by instinct, ratties ere he strikes.
Besides those common with a simple age,
Refinement brings new vices on the stage;
And with Hypocrisy and Guile, her kun,
Eeduplio aies iAe cata ogae Of SIN,
For, those not plainly 10 the sense exposed,
Is. them that fear them are the less opposed
80, work their evil surely, at their case,
And, never checked, by multiplcs Increase
Besides, ike beasts, as showmen all remark,
Become mere fierce by keeping IN the dark
Thus, double evils IN the world we see,
Thoss b1rn OF nature and hypocrisy
And yet to simple unObscrNIng mind,
There almost seems 40 trouble of the kind
Each vicious passion, though IL wanders free,
Is rubbed Ia garments OF geRsilgyi
Zach, IA disguise, Pursnes is h'llefu task,
Zach glares apon us, meath u silken mask!
SOFT siren music stllis the adder hiss,
AS, gently, each beiFays US wt "A kiss
Behold among Va. al this festive place,
fersonlted all passions of
In this retreat a ssicFtzSsHs nnd-
A place study aiid to /. mankind
Yes, >osBR1-niany a tragedy unseen,
Is here perlorn'e'l poor human hearts between;
Dumb oratog S-Nhose play Ia man unknown,
Il watched by eye Of Deity, alone -
All that "a man Is ever gym 10
j. the sad Issue and catastrophe
Here, ali the Ilssons ia Disguise convene,
The TeScl JOin, and mingie VA the scene.
Masked aud my stsrto0s they glide among
Their fellow actors la the various throngs
Insidiously their nuxious bane iRstll,
And move the human papPeis al their will
There Envy, skilled her ranklaas wounds 10 hide,
Moves calRiiy ~ her statelicr sister Pride.
Here, derry lite. silh manner Kindly bland,
lakes Uns,sl->-tlI Friendship b. the hand
Hiss Sowing ieatafvs veilei wilh skillfaI care,
Rage hissss 0ut las slmuialhD therr--
Hers wan Dssgzslr la lls eiess robo aFrayed,
Walks Ia the glare, though plllilg for th- shade
Revenge there tracks tbs aissis pcctng toe
And smiles upon hina AS he strikes tho blow.
Here, too, liein0rse 50 ably nlis her part
One eanpot see tho dagger a her heart.
Pale Grief, rcclaiming the last sw cling ter,
sIts smiling throsag hsr Aliasn K ash tisefS--
Ambition, here, its parpe-r ~ obtain,