The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-04-14
PD&Ii3TY.
SCHOOL AND sCHoOL-FELLOWs,
DY ". MACKwORTII. rRAEp.+

Twelve years ago l made mock
or filthy trades and trafcs,
wondered what they meant by stock;
l wrote delightful sapplics:
knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
suppcd with tatcs and furies:
Twelve years ago was a boy,
a happy boy, at nury's.
Twelve years ago!--how many n thought
ot faded paints and pleasures
Those whispered syllablcs have brought
From mcmory's boarded treasures!
The ilcl'lS, the forms, the beasts, the broo
The gl"rics and GiSgraccs,
The voices of dear friends, the looks
or old familiar faces.
hind Master slni.cs again to nc,
rs bright as when we parted;
l seem again the frank, the free,
Sh"u-imhcl, and simplc-hcartcd
Pursuing every ii;c dream,
And stunning every warming;
With no hard work but Bovncv Stream,
N'o SANtIl tOilS
Now stopping Harry Vcnon's ball,
That rat:lcl like Il rocket;
Now bearing Wcntwortlls fourteen ALL"
And striking for the pocket:
Now frasting Oh cheese and fitch,
Now drinking from the pewter;
Now lcaping over Cha!vey ditch,
Now laughing at my tutor
Where arc my fricnls:-I am alone,
y" playmate shares my hcakcr-
Some lie beneath the cllurchyarl stone,
AMI some before Tic Speakers;
Anu some compose tragedy,
And some compose Il ran,lo;
Ahd some draw Swor,. for liberty,
And some draw pleas for john Doc.
i''h Mil was uscI 10 Llackcn eyes,
Without ihc fear of sessions:
.harles Med!cr l"a'll'd false quantities,
AS m'tcli as false Professions
Now Mill keeps order in the land,
= magistrate rc'lantic;
And Mcdlcr'S feet rcposc, unscnnu.J.
Beneath the wide Atlantic.
viii Nick, whose oaths made such din,
Docs Dir. Mlartrcx,'s duty;
And Mullion, with that m"nstrous clin,
Is married to a beauty;
E"'' Darrc' studies, week by wcck,3
His Mant, and not his Manton:
And Ball, WHO was but poor ut Greek,
/, very rich at Canton
And am eight -anl-twcnty how
The worlds cold Chain has bound me;
And darker shades arc on my brow,
And sadder scenes around me;
In parliament fill my seat,
With many other noodles;
And lay my head in Jcrmyn street,
And sip my llock at boobies.
ls''t often, when the cares Of life
Have set my temples aching,
When visions haunt Inc of wife,
When duns await my waking,
When Lady Jane is in a pet,
Or Hobby in hurry,
When Captain Hazard wins a bet,
Or Bcuulieu spoils q curry:
For hours and hours think anu talk
OF each remembered hobby:
long to lounge in Poets Walk
10 shivcr i'll the lobby;
wish that coul,l run away
From house, and court. and lcyce.
Where bearded ncr' appear to-day,
just Eton boys, grown heavy;
That cc,lil tasl1 in chiIlhoci's SUE,
And dance DER chillhooTs roses:
And fnd huge wealth in one po,rnl orc.
VAST wit in broken noses;
And pray Sir Giles at Datchct Lane,
And call the milk maids houris;
That could be boy again
A happy boy, at Druy's,
His poem is from a new Volume Of Pm
writings, never before collected, in the rree
kedflcld, Of New York city. 1t will remind
reader Of Gray's famous "O,lc on q Dis,
Prospect Of Eton College," CT which prued
n famous student, though the manner Of
two poems has little similarity. The third
fourth stanzas have been heretofore omittc,
The American copies cf this graceful pocm.
10 Whitehill, of Columbus, Tenn,
mer'y treasurer OF State, was rough iol
even in his office.
Some twenty years ago q mem
of the Goner,I h,s.,,II., Ill,