Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-02

PoErICAI, AND-so-FORTH. :, "A moon-struck
voung gentleman over here in Rutherford is
dishing up love-verses to his sweetheart
through the columns of the Murfresboro
Mtcs He writes himself down "A Stranger"
and we should say he is stranger, eminent
ly so--nOt to the maiden upon whom he 50
numerically bestOws his poetry. but to the
muses. who have SO numerically refused to
bestow their poetry upon him. We don't
mean to say that "A Stranger" is not poet
nor that poet is not a stranger-but we take
it for granted that the intelligent reader Sees
through it.
In the first place, "a Stranger" wants to
make his sweetheart a present of some sort,
but does not know what to offer
al do not know what offering,
To lay upon thv shrine,
And vet meIhuks thy heart would ask
The warmesi love Of minc''
No, stranger, you are mistaken there.
You've missed it the very first pass. That
young lady probably doesn't care continen-
tai for your warmest love, nor for your cool
est love either. If you've got as much as
hundred dollars about your clothes, buy her
u
funds, try her with a set of patent extensions {;
that might do. Your love is no doubt well
gotten up thing, but she might consider such
trinkets neither useful nor ornamental, and
you would get nothing but your labor for
your pains.
0were to bring the brightest gem,
Fer found in earthly mine,
Howe'e So bright, IT were not ut,
To deck br, W Ike thine"
Well. who the deuce said it would be We
don't suppose she did we knew tce didn't.
Never mind decking her brow - that's none
of your business. Besides, much less cost
" gem than 1.-The brightest e'er found in
earthly mine" would. in all probability, con-
siderably oversize your pile. If you can af-
crd to deck her finger with a ten-dollar ring,
and she will consent to the decoration, you
ought TO be satisfied.
al cannot Irvine n wreath OF flowers,
To bind upou thy brow,
For qfl the laurel wreaths OF fame
Is circling round tnow."
oh. YOU be hanged. Just let us tell you
one thing, stranger: the young lady who
would MT tear away "a laurel wreath OF
fsmeu for the sake of bridal wreath Of or
aGpe flowers, when asked 10 do by the
right sort of man, died many years before
You were born. II yoa are right certain the
young lady is after you, and you know
YOU we got dead thing of il, never
mind the laurel; il you can replace it with
tue orange, it won't be missed much then
though we suspect it is very much mist now,
IL :, all in vour eye at that
ssBut choose for thee three jewels bright
As Firtue, LOse and Truth;
For these, inethnks, are lifting gems
To deck the brow Of youth"
Come now; that game won't win.-lts
PLAYED out long ago. Ifyou really intend TO
give the young lady token of your afiec-
ton. do II at once, aud don't be whipping the
devil round the stump in that way. It's our
opinion that you are trying 10 back out alto
pether. The jewels you are kind enough TO
mention and beg her TO accept, are rather
fine ia their way. but they are hers already
III. are her family jewels-and you are
worse than burglar WHEN you rob her cas-
ket with one band and attempt to make her
receive the stolen goods wi'b the. other. For
sbamel If you are -strsppeJ," 'eleaned on,,
aIead broke''-in word, ifyou have mary
red - say so like a mani or il you are too
stingy to buy your sweetheart something
nice. which We are Inclined to think Is the
case. you are unworthy TO sit up with her,
and ought to back out and quit.
.And Iasy. when all wish,
Tsr tLes On earth q given,
OH then play hist tho may 81 DO
An angel bright In heaven
Yod can wish good many things. stran-
ger; YOU are liberal enough ia that wayi ba.
If VOC wish anything for her that costs mon
ey. and she has to wait ill che gets Il before
she becomes an angel in heaven, what the
thunder viii become Of her IN the mean time
when this world wears out! When you shall
have answered that question you caa stand
aside.