New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-08
TYRIAEIs aOUTlH.


1t has been for a long time vexed question
whether our Southern friends could or could not
sing. They produced much-cottOn, rice, sugar.
and immense domineering Legislative influence
but could they produce poetry They should.
Twas tie land Of the South twas the land of the
sun. The ingenious youth Of that ilk had ample
time for their guitaring and strummng-they had
always ga niger" to fetch to them their Tyres
they had "ngger" if necessary to tune them
but such is the general tendency Of mankind to
relapse into incidence that the songs, though soft
aud sweet, were not strong and in fact were mostly
silly. To the critical mind it is bother to know
why Southern poetry should be so uniformly
and fatty bad Poetry deals, or should deal
for the most part, with the domestic Affections
parent and Neutrality-suspicious.. But how
is it that the South, chock full of the domestic
affections, should get no farer, fuller and moro
melodious utterancel Having studiously collated
Southern poetry, we do not remember single
piece intituled " Lines to my Daughter whom
am Compelled 70 Selr'-" Farewell to Dick,
"whO has just Been Disposed Of for 81 ,OCO'-
ITO My Colored Cousin" To Ny Little Brown
"Sister," Somehow the Bards Of the South miss
these interesting subjects. But when they do
write, Phebus forfend that we should not do them
all possible Justice There is a bard who writes
for The Charleston Mercury, who produces beauti-
FIJI poetry He signs himself COLA" Perhaps
He is q SHE
The poem which has compelled US to make these
most magnsnmous declarations, was occasoned BY
the arrival Of the steamer Brooklyn ia Southern
waters. No sooner did this gallant craft appear at
Beaufort, than the Tyre WAS brought out and the
poet Of The Charleston Mercury cleared his throat.
He commenced in medias res as follows:
"Noble Broo1yn! all hail to your arrival"
And not to have it misunderstood, the lyrist adds;
In the bosom Of our beautiful bay"
Here be warns up and shouts in an Anacreontic
mood:
with acrew gallant and conviVisL'
The reader, if he be critical one, as all readers
are supposed to be, will notice that arrival" and
"convivial" are hardly allowable rhymes; bat you
cannot restrain q Southern Bard. We must now
90 on with this beautiful little Epic. She has ar.
rived. Does she have on board q melancholy crew,
like that CHASTITY one which peopled the forlora
decks Of 1.-THE Ancient Marner'l Not bit of
it. We have seen that the crew arrived in 9
gallant and convivial" cOnditon-and what is the
result We will state it in the words of the poet
"Onr girls are deeply in love
With the beautiful ship a. she rides'-
And being in love with the ship, they are, of
course, in love with the crew, who are said to be
"----ssllsnts in whom they con6de"
The bard here passes from the amorous and afec-
Tomato to the biographical, and pays neat COM
pliment to the commander of this beautiful shp-of-
battle. He refers in a neat but just way to the
services Of this chief, who has
Recorded his name the leaf
indelioly NAKED with her gore.s
Gore" is here, for the first time, proclaimed 10
be 9 sort Of " indellible ink"-for the frat time
We mean, since the awful and tragic non aqueou,
manipulation Of Lady Macbeth. Gore is, any.
where, q bad thing; but "gore" that is "inde-
"ble" is about the most poisonous pigment Jet dis
covered or announced.
And now the Poet screws up the strings Of his
fiddle at least note and a-hslf, and, as becomes
conscientious American thinks of the Flag Of His
Country. Hear him with ave. admiration and de-
light
Bright banner, may your stars never fade
But skine through the tempest Of wG"
But what is banner unless it il defended
Therefore the poet adds:
" No foes combined shall degrade,
But be h1Tle3 from her bulwlIks si,r-
We call this good. And now for psthos. Bring
out your handkerchiefs!
Gallant slip, shan Sec 700 no more
Our bnsht waters az aiu 70 embrace
Soft hearts may he touched he core
Deep wounds are hard 70 eHsce"
Fact, again. Now, with this evidence of South.
ern pOetcal ability before the world, we trust that
all such carping critics aud defamers of Southern
genius a. be Of The Nes. Oreaxs Delta will forever.
more held their peace.