Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-06-17


BY ALFRED TENNYsoN,
There is sound of thunder afar,
Storm in the South that darkens the day,
Storm of battle and thunder of war;
Well if it do not roll our way.
Storm! storm! Rifemeu form
Ready, be ready to meet the storm
Rifemen, rihemen rifemen form
Be not deaf to the sound that warns.
Be not guild by despOts plea!
How should despot set men free?
Form! form! Rifem form
Ready, be ready to meet the storm
Rifemen, rl1emen, rlhemen form
Let your Reforms for a moment 90,
Look to your butts and take good aims
Better rotten borough so,
Than a rotten fleet a city in flames
Form form Rflemen, form
Ready be ready to meet the storm
Rifemen rifemen, rifemen form
Form, be ready to do or die
Form in Freedoms and the Queens!
True, that have faithful ally
But only the Devil knows what he
Form! form! R1emen form
Ready, be ready to meet the storm
R1emen, rifemen, Tidemen form
Tennyson ParOdled.
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson's poem " The War; which
some attribute Upper, but which the London Athe
naum AYERS positively by Tennyson is thus ceyery
parodied in the Boston Post:
That War.
BY mL-FED vENIsON.
There is sound of a drumming anear,
Sound in the streets at bright midday;
Clang of kettle and thunder of bass,
D-d if it do not come way.
Boom Il boom boom-a lang boom
Booma! booma boom, boom, boom
Boom a-lang boom a-lang boom a-lang boom !!
Peal your to the sound of boom
Be not tapped by tipsy flea
Is wine of bristles Oil of clans
How should lobster set men free
Boom! BOOM boom.alang, boom!
Booma boOma boom boom ! boom
Booma lang boom -alang boom-a lang boom !!
Let your young moment go
Look to your broomsticks bring EN- in line
poff rOffon nTOfaf or
Than garden rooted by foreign swine
Boom! boom boom-aang, boom
BOOma boOma boom boom ! boom
B0om-a-lang! boom-aang boom a-lang! boom !!
March, be ready to stew fry;
March, though it may be all for green's
True tha we have faithful fryer,
But the devil knows if he knows beans
Boom! BOOM boom a-ang, boom
BOoma bOoma boom boom boom
Boom-a-lang boom-a a-ang boom a-lang boom
FREAKS OF L1GHTN1NG.-The sharp lightning in the
thunder storm of Saturday morning, said at the
time struck somewhere" We learn that Mr.. Iiidsey
Graham, of Norfolk county, was passing along the
Buzzards Neck road about four miles from town. with
a cart load of crabs and fish for market, when the
thun9sr and lightning struck his horse i'll the fore
head billing the animal instantly and as our informant
states killing every id craD.'' Mr.. Graham was
not injured-he having jumped on another cart.
During the storm the lightning struck house in
Newtown, descending the chimney, knocked a panel
out of the door against which gentleman sitting,
tore the shoes from the feet of child burnt the clothes
of another and split its foot open and performed other
astonishing freaks. No one was killed.-Nor. argus.
MARINE LOSSES FOR MAY.-The monthly statement
of the New York Courier and Enquirer of marine loss
es shows an aggregate of fortyone vessels of which
eight were ships, barks nine schooners
and two were steamboats,. The total value of property
lost was one million two hundred and sixteen thousand
seven hundred dollars This is the value of the proper
ty totally lost exclusive of damage to vessels not amount
ling to total loss.